On Relativization and Clefting

Chiara Branchini

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2015

On Relativization and Clefting

An Analysis of Italian Sign Language

Chiara Branchini

Volume 5 in the series Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501500008

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Contents

About this book

This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion on the theories that have been proposed in the literature of spoken languages to derive the syntactic phenomena object of investigation.

Author information

Chiara Branchini, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	VII
Contents Open Access Download PDF	IX
List of figures Open Access Download PDF	XV
Notational conventions Open Access Download PDF	XVI
Sign language acronyms Open Access Download PDF	XIX
General Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I: Introducing Italian Sign Language (LIS)
1. Italian Sign Language and the Italian Deaf community Open Access Download PDF	9
2. A syntactic outline of Italian Sign Language (LIS) Open Access Download PDF	15
Part II: On Relativization
3. Relativization strategies in spoken languages Open Access Download PDF	53
4. Relative clauses in sign languages: A typological survey Open Access Download PDF	157
5. Some methodological issues Open Access Download PDF	175
6. An internally headed relative clause analysis for LIS relative structures Open Access Download PDF	187
Part III: On Clefting
7. Clefting in spoken languages Open Access Download PDF	237
8. An analysis of LIS cleft constructions Open Access Download PDF	267
Conclusions Open Access Download PDF	296
Notes Open Access Download PDF	298
References Open Access Download PDF	317
Index Open Access Download PDF	340

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Students and Researchers of General Linguistics and Sign Linguistics
Pages
- Front matter: 17
- Main content: 343
Keywords: Italian Sign Language; Relative Clauses; Cleft Constructions

eBook

Published: December 12, 2014
ISBN: 9781501500008

Hardcover

Published: November 27, 2014
ISBN: 9781501510373