Evaluative Constructions in Italian Sign Language (LIS): A Multi-Theoretical Analysis

Elena Fornasiero

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2023

Evaluative Constructions in Italian Sign Language (LIS)

A Multi-Theoretical Analysis

Elena Fornasiero

Volume 17 in the series Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783445

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About this book

The domain of evaluative morphology is vast and complex, as it requires the combination of morphological, semantic and pragmatic information to be understood. Nevertheless, cross-linguistic studies on spoken languages show that languages share some patterns in the way they encode evaluative features. It follows that investigating evaluative morphology in sign languages (SLs) can enrich the literature and offer new insights. This book provides descriptive and theoretical contributions by considering Italian Sign Language (LIS) as empirical ground of investigation. At the descriptive level, the analysis of corpus and elicited data improves the description of morphological processes in LIS, as well as typological studies on evaluative morphology by adding the patterns of a visuo-gestural language. At the theoretical level, the study shows the benefit of combining different approaches (Generative Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Cognitive Linguistics) for the exploration of evaluative constructions in SLs, as it allows to identify both modality-specific and modality-independent properties.
In sum, this book encourages the readers to rely on different data types, analyses and theoretical perspectives to investigate linguistic phenomena in SLs.

Author / Editor information

Elena Fornasiero, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Notational conventions Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Sign language acronyms Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
List of abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XIX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Theoretical background
1 Investigating evaluative morphology from different perspectives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2 Morphophonological aspects of sign languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Part II: Methodological issues
3 Methodology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Part III: Evaluative constructions in Italian Sign Language
4 Descriptive analysis of LIS evaluative constructions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
5 Formal analysis of LIS evaluative constructions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Appendix A1: Object description task Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Appendix A2: Narration task Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Appendix A3: Object description task for SASSes elicitation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars and undergraduate, graduate as well as PhD students of Sign language linguistics and Generative linguistics.
Pages
- Front matter: 19
- Main content: 223
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 32
- Tables: 11
Keywords: Italian Sign Language; Evaluative Morphology; Non-manual Markers

eBook

Published: September 18, 2023
ISBN: 9783110783445

Hardcover

Published: September 18, 2023
ISBN: 9783110783391