Ulrike Zeshan | University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
The topic of word classes remains curiously under-represented in the sign language literature due to many theoretical and methodological problems in sign linguistics. This article focuses on language-specific classifications of signs into word classes in two different sign languages: German Sign Language and Kata Kolok, the sign language of a village community in Bali.
The article discusses semantic and structural criteria for identifying word classes in the target sign languages. On the basis of a data set of signs, these criteria are systematically tested out as a first step towards an inductive classification of signs. Approaches and analyses relating to the problem of word classes in linguistic typology are used for shedding new light on the issue of word class distinctions in sign languages.
2022. Significantly different noun-verb distinguishing mechanisms in written Chinese and Chinese sign language: An event-related potential study of bilingual native signers. Frontiers in Neuroscience 16
Millet, Agnès
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O'Meara, Carolyn, Laura J. Speed, Lila San Roque & Asifa Majid
Johnston, Trevor, Donovan Cresdee, Adam Schembri & Bencie Woll
2015. finishvariation and grammaticalization in a signed language: How far down this well-trodden pathway is Auslan (Australian Sign Language)?. Language Variation and Change 27:1 ► pp. 117 ff.
Perniss, Pamela & Asli Özyürek
2015. Visible Cohesion: A Comparison of Reference Tracking in Sign, Speech, and Co‐Speech Gesture. Topics in Cognitive Science 7:1 ► pp. 36 ff.
2012. Lexical Frequency in Sign Languages. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 17:2 ► pp. 163 ff.
Evans, Nicholas & Stephen C. Levinson
2009. The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32:5 ► pp. 429 ff.
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