Stokoe on noun and verb

[Nobukatsu Minoura]

Hello, Ulrike!

Thank you for your reply.  I happen to have Armstrong, Stokoe, and Wilcox
(1995).  I read it partially now.  It is not written as simply as "the
handshape is noun and the movement is verb," but Stokoe's semantic phonology
is well represented there.  And I will look into Wilcox (2002).

Best wishes,

Nobukatsu Minoura
Linguistics
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
minoura at tufs.ac.jp
nobum at gol.com

> As far as I remember, there was a paper with the title 'Semantic phonology'
> by Stokoe in an issue of Sign Language Studies. Don't remember the number,
> but I am sure you can find it easily enough. You might also find this idea
> expressed somewhere in the book "Gesture and the nature of language" by
> Stokoe, Armstrong & Wilcox, but I am not really sure about this, you can
> check if you want.
>
> I recently found an interesting explanation/elaboration of the 'semantic
> phonology' idea in this reference:
> Wilcox, Sherman E. (2002): Stokoe and the Gestural Theory of Language
> Origin. In: Armstrong, David, Michael Krachmer & John Vickrey Van Cleve
> (eds.): The Study of Signed Languages. Essays in Honor of William C.
> Stokoe. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. pp. 118 - 130.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ulrike