Modal and Focus Particles in Sign Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Study

Annika Herrmann

book: Modal and Focus Particles in Sign Languages

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2014

Modal and Focus Particles in Sign Languages

A Cross-Linguistic Study

Annika Herrmann

Volume 2 in the series Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511816

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About this book

Bringing together the research fields of sign language linguistics and information structure, this book focuses on the realization of modal particles and focus particles in three European sign languages: German Sign Language, Sign Language of the Netherlands, and Irish Sign Language. As a cross-linguistic investigation based on a systematic methodological approach, the study analyzes the results particularly with regard to nonmanual features expressed by articulators such as the body, head, and face. The analyses of the data provide interesting insights into the syntax-prosody interface in sign languages and the interaction of syntax and prosody in general.

Modal and focus particles have not been thoroughly investigated in sign languages. This volume presents the first study on this phenomenon and is thus an innovative contribution to the field. From a methodological and theoretical perspective, it draws on up-to-date linguistic tools and provides professionally elicited and annotated data. The book accounts for the results within existing theoretical models. Given its specific focus on nonmanuals, the book contributes to recent debates on information structure and the syntax-prosody interface and will be of special interest to both sign and spoken language linguists.

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Annika Herrmann, Göttingen University, Germany.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	v
Contents Open Access Download PDF	vii
List of figures Open Access Download PDF	xiii
List of tables Open Access Download PDF	xv
Notational conventions Open Access Download PDF	xvii
Sign language acronyms Open Access Download PDF	xix
Chapter 1. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I. Typological, theoretical, and methodological background
Chapter 2. Sign language typology Open Access Download PDF	13
Chapter 3. Nonmanuals in sign languages Open Access Download PDF	33
Chapter 4. Methodology Open Access Download PDF	53
Part II. Modal meaning
Chapter 5. Modality and modal particles in spoken languages Open Access Download PDF	77
Chapter 6. Modality and modal particles in sign languages Open Access Download PDF	107
Part III. Focus particles
Chapter 7. Focus particles in spoken languages Open Access Download PDF	183
Chapter 8. Focus particles in sign languages Open Access Download PDF	221
Chapter 9. Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	341
Appendix Open Access Download PDF	353
Notes Open Access Download PDF	359
References Open Access Download PDF	369
Index Open Access Download PDF	397

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Institutional Libraries, Students and Researchers of Sign Languages and Linguistics, Sign Language Typology, Information Structure, Formal and Functional Grammar, Prosody-Syntax Interface
Pages
- Front matter: 19
- Main content: 400
Keywords: Sign Language; Language Typology; Syntax; Prosody

eBook

Published: December 12, 2013
ISBN: 9781614511816

Hardcover

Published: December 19, 2013
ISBN: 9781614512370