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Cardinal numerals in rural sign languages: Approaching cross-modal typology

  • Zeshan Ulrike EMAIL logo , Cesar Ernesto Escobedo Delgado , Hasan Dikyuva , Sibaji Panda and Connie de Vos
From the journal Linguistic Typology

Abstract

This article presents data on cardinal numerals in three sign languages from small-scale communities with hereditary deafness. The unusual features found in these data considerably extend the known range of typological variety across sign languages. Some features, such as non-decimal numeral bases, are unattested in sign languages, but familiar from spoken languages, while others, such as subtractive sub-systems, are rare in sign and speech. We conclude that for a complete typological appraisal of a domain, an approach to cross-modal typology, which includes a typologically diverse range of sign languages in addition to spoken languages, is both instructive and feasible.

Published Online: 2013-12-05
Published in Print: 2013-11-25

© 2013 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston

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