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  title info:
    title: Nominal Modification in Italian Sign Language
  name:
    name part: Mantovan, Lara.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
  abstract: Since the recent creation of a large-scale corpus of Italian Sign Language (LIS), a new research branch has been established to study the sociolinguistic variation characterizing this language in various linguistic domains. However, for nominal modification, the role of language-internal variation remains uncertain. This volume represents the first attempt to investigate sign order variability in this domain, examining what shapes the syntactic structure of LIS nominal expressions. In particular, three empirical studies are presented and discussed: the first two are corpus studies investigating the distribution and duration of nominal modifiers, while the third deals with the syntactic behavior of cardinal numerals, an unexplored area. In this enterprise, three different theoretical dimensions of inquiry are innovatively combined: linguistic typology, generative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. The research setup involves both quantitative and qualitative data. This mixed approach starts from corpus data to present the phenomenon, examine linguistic facts on a large scale, and draw questions from these, and then looks at elicited and judgment-based data to provide valid insights and refine the analysis. Crucially, the combination of different methods contributes to a better understanding of the mechanisms driving nominal modification in LIS and its internal variation.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notation conventions -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Background -- 1. Three theoretical dimensions of inquiry -- 2. State of the art on nominal modification -- Part II: Methodological Issues -- 3. Methodology -- Part III: Empirical Studies -- 4. The distribution of nominal modifiers -- 5. The duration of nominal modifiers -- 6. The syntax of cardinal numerals in LIS -- 7. Closing remarks -- References -- Index.
  note: Lara Mantovan.
  note: In English.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    topic: Italian Sign Language
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: Sign Language
  subject:
    topic: Italian Sign Language
  subject:
    topic: (Produktform)Electronic book text
  subject:
    topic: (Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft
  subject:
    topic: (BISAC Subject Heading)LAN009000
  subject:
    topic: (BISAC Subject Heading)FOR013000: FOR013000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Italian
  subject:
    topic: Italian Sign Language; Linguistic Typology; Generative Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: (VLB-WN)9560
  subject:
    topic: Generative Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Italian Sign Language
  subject:
    topic: Linguistic Typology
  subject:
    topic: (Produktrabattgruppe)PR: rabattbeschränkt/Bibliothekswerke
  classification: HV2476.5.I88 M66 2017eb
  classification: 400
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities SLDC ; 8
  identifier: 9781501504853
  identifier: 1501504851
  identifier: 9781501504815
  identifier: 1501504819
  identifier: 1501513435
  identifier: 9781501513435
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: DEGRU
    record creation date: 170517
    record change date: 20240212223328.4
    record identifier: in00004773431
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng