Sign Language Syntax from a Formal Perspective

Selected Papers from the 2012 Warsaw FEAST

Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 16:2 (2013)

Editor

Paweł Rutkowski | University of Warsaw

[Sign Language & Linguistics, 16:2] 2013. v, 166 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 December 2013

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.16.2

Table of Contents

Preface
When theoretical syntax meets sign language data Paweł Rutkowski	119–123
Articles
Gettin’ together a posse: The primacy of predication in ASL possessives Natasha Abner	125–156
wh-duplication in Italian Sign Language (LIS) Chiara Branchini, Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto, Caterina Donati and Carlo Geraci	157–188
person climbing up a tree: (and other adventures in sign language grammaticalization) Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach	189–220
The point of agreement: Changing how we think about sign language, gesture, and agreement Ronnie B. Wilbur	221–258
book reviews
Review of Zeshan & de Vos (2012): Sign Languages in Village Communities: Anthropological and Linguistic Insights Reviewed by Lynn Hou	259–268
Review of Pfau, Steinbach & Woll (2012): Sign Language – An International Handbook (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science – HSK 37) Reviewed by Natasha Abner	269–275
dissertation abstract
Sign-spatiality in Kata Kolok: How a village sign language of Bali inscribes its signing space Connie de Vos	277–284

Subjects

Electronic/Multimedia Products

Electronic/Multimedia Products

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Signed languages