A Matter of Complexity. Subordination in Sign Languages

• Autor Principal: Pfau, Roland (auth)
• Outros autores: Steinbach, Markus (auth), Herrmann, Annika (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Idioma: inglés
• Publicado: De Gruyter 2016
• Series: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC]
• Subjects: Prosody; Semantics; Information Structure; Syntax; Sign Language
• Acceso en liña: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Since natural languages exist in two different modalities &#8211 the visual-gestural modality of sign languages and the auditory-oral modality of spoken languages &#8211 it is obvious that all fields of research in modern linguistics will benefit from research on sign languages. Although pre...