34.2886, Books: Evaluative Constructions in Italian Sign Language (LIS): Fornasiero (2023)

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Date: 24-Sep-2023
From: Katrin Stein [katrin.stein at degruyter.com]
Subject: Evaluative Constructions in Italian Sign Language (LIS): Fornasiero (2023) 


Title: Evaluative Constructions in Italian Sign Language (LIS)
Subtitle: A Multi-Theoretical Analysis
Series Title: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
                https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110783445/html

author: Elena Fornasiero
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110783391 Pages: 223 Price: Europe EURO 139,95
Electronic: ISBN:  9783110783445 Pages: 223 Price: Europe EURO 139,95
Abstract:

The domain of evaluative morphology is vast and complex, as it
requires the combination of morphological, semantic and pragmatic
information to be understood. Nevertheless, cross-linguistic studies
on spoken languages show that languages share some patterns in the way
they encode evaluative features. It follows that investigating
evaluative morphology in sign languages (SLs) can enrich the
literature and offer new insights. This book provides descriptive and
theoretical contributions by considering Italian Sign Language (LIS)
as empirical ground of investigation. At the descriptive level, the
analysis of corpus and elicited data improves the description of
morphological processes in LIS, as well as typological studies on
evaluative morphology by adding the patterns of a visuo-gestural
language. At the theoretical level, the study shows the benefit of
combining different approaches (Generative Linguistics, Linguistic
Typology, Cognitive Linguistics) for the exploration of evaluative
constructions in SLs, as it allows to identify both modality-specific
and modality-independent properties.
In sum, this book encourages the readers to rely on different data
types, analyses and theoretical perspectives to investigate linguistic
phenomena in SLs.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)

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