Semantic Fields in Sign Languages. Colour, Kinship and Quantification

• Päätekijä: Zeshan, Ulrike (auth)
• Muut tekijät: Sagara, Keiko (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: De Gruyter 2016
• Sarja: Sign Language Typology [SLT]
• Aiheet: Deaf Studies; Linguistics; Typology; Sign Language
• Linkit: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book presents primary data and typological comparisons across sign languages with respect to three semantic fields: kinship terms, colour terms and quantification. Based on a large-scale study of 32 sign languages from all over the world, these topics are explored in 10 sign languages, accompan...