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[Mark Mandel]

>From LINGUIST List #11-2309,
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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:56:38 -0400
From: Paul Peranteau <paul at benjamins.com>
Subject: Sign Language in Indo-Pakistan, U.Zeshan


John Benjamins Publishing announces the following new work:

Sign Language in Indo-Pakistan.
A description of a signed language.
Ulrike ZESHAN (LaTrobe University, Melbourne)

US & Canada:   1 55619 857 4 / USD 45.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 2563 X / NLG 90.00 (Hardcover)

To find a suitable framework for the description of a previously
undocumented language is all the more challenging in the case of a
signed language. In this book, for the first time, an indigenous Asian
sign language used in deaf communities in India and Pakistan is
described on all linguistically relevant levels. This grammatical
sketch aims at providing a concise yet comprehensive picture of the
language. It covers a substantial part of Indopakistani Sign Language
grammar. Topics discussed range from properties of individual signs to
principles of discourse organization. Important aspects of
morphological structure and syntactic regularities are
summarized. Finally, sign language specific grammatical mechanisms
such as spatially realized syntax and the use of facial expressions
also figure prominently in this book. A 300-word dictionary with
graphic representations of signs and a transcribed sample text
complement the grammatical description.

The cross-linguistic study of signed languages is only just
beginning. Descriptive materials such as the ones presented in this
book provide the necessary starting point for further empirical and
theoretical research in this direction.



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