28.2699, Books: Nominal Modification in Italian Sign Language: Mantovan

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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:11:36
From: Pablo Dominguez Andersen [pablo.dominguez at degruyter.com]
Subject: Nominal Modification in Italian Sign Language: Mantovan

 


Title: Nominal Modification in Italian Sign Language 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/477042?format=G 


Author: Lara Mantovan

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501513435 Pages: 207 Price: U.S. $ 140.00


Abstract:

Since the recent creation of a large-scale corpus of Italian Sign Language
(LIS), a new research branch has been established to study the sociolinguistic
variation characterizing this language in various linguistic domains. However,
for nominal modification, the role of language-internal variation remains
uncertain. This volume represents the first attempt to investigate sign order
variability in this domain, examining what shapes the syntactic structure of
LIS nominal expressions. In particular, three empirical studies are presented
and discussed: the first two are corpus studies investigating the distribution
and duration of nominal modifiers, while the third deals with the syntactic
behavior of cardinal numerals, an unexplored area.

In this enterprise, three different theoretical dimensions of inquiry are
innovatively combined: linguistic typology, generative linguistics, and
sociolinguistics. The research setup involves both quantitative and
qualitative data. This mixed approach starts from corpus data to present the
phenomenon, examine linguistic facts on a large scale, and draw questions from
these, and then looks at elicited and judgment-based data to provide valid
insights and refine the analysis. Crucially, the combination of different
methods contributes to a better understanding of the mechanisms driving
nominal modification in LIS and its internal variation.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Italian Sign Language (ise)


Written In: English  (eng)

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