Perspectives on Classifier Constructions

[Karen Emmorey]

To SL-Listers,

I'm happy to announce that the "Classifier Volume" is out and
available at a book store or website near you (www.erlbaum.com or
amazon.com)!  Those of you who ordered advanced copies should be
receiving them shortly, if you haven't already.

Here is the Table of Contents:

Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages
Karen Emmorey (Editor)
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2003.

Part I:  The Syntax and Morphology of Classifiers in Sign Languages
1. Rethinking 'Classifiers' in Signed Languages
Adam Schembri

2. Noun and Verbal Classifiers in Swedish Sign Language
Brita Bergman and Lars Wallin

3. Classifier Constructions and Morphology in Two Sign Languages
Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir, Carol Padden, and Wendy Sandler

Commentary
4. Classifiers in Spoken and in Signed Languages:  How to Know More
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

5. Classifier Systems in the Context of a Typology of Nominal Classification
Colette Grinevald

Part II:  Cross-Linguistic Variation in Classifier Constructions and
Spatial Language
6. 'Classificatory' Constructions in Indo-Pakistani Sign Language:
Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Processes
Ulrike Zeshan

7. Verbs of Motion and Location in Hong Kong Sign Language:
Conflation and Lexicalization
Gladys Tang

Commentary
8. The Representation of Spatial Structure in Spoken and Signed Language
Leonard Talmy

Part III: Classifier Constructions and Gesture
9.  Sources of Meaning in ASL Classifier Predicates
Scott Liddell

10.  Categorical Versus Gradient Properties of Classifier Constructions in ASL
Karen Emmorey and Melissa Herzig

Commentary
11. Revisiting Visual Analogy in ASL Classifier Predicates
Ted Supalla

12. Gesture in Language:  Issues for Sign Language Research
Susan Duncan

Part IV: The Acquisition of Classifier Constructions
13. A Cognitive/Functional Perspective on the Acquisition of "classifiers"
Dan I. Slobin, Nini Hoiting, Marlon Kuntze, Reyna Lindert, Amy Weinberg, Jennie Pyers, Michelle Anthony, Yael Biederman, and Helen Thumann

14. The Development of Reference Switching Encoded Through Body
Classifiers in British Sign Language
Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll

15, How Composite is a Fall?  Adults' and Childrens' Descriptions of
Different Types of Falls in Danish Sign Language
Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
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