Information Structure in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands
Año:
2014
Editorial:
Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, 2014
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Temas
Lingüística » Lingüística de otras Lenguas de Signos
Detalles
The dissertation will explore this question through the study of IS in two unrelated sign languages: Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse Gebarentaal, in the following abbreviated as NGT) and Russian Sign Language (RSL). This is a new contribution to sign language typology since these two languages have not been compared before in the area of IS. It also for the first time goes deeply into the forms and functions used in IS in these two sign languages in the search for possible universal and modality specific aspects. Finally this dissertation is based on corpora and involves quantitative and qualitative descriptions, which is quite unusual in the field of sign linguistics.