Chapter 8 Classifiers

• Päätekijä: Zwitserlood, Inge (auth)
• Muut tekijät: Pfau, Roland (Toimittaja), Steinbach, Markus (Toimittaja), Woll, Bencie (Toimittaja)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2012
• Aiheet: linguistics; Sign Language; Language Typology; Grammar; Psycholinguistics; Neurolinguistics; Sociolinguistics
• Linkit: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Classifiers (currently also called 'depicting handshapes'), are observed in almost all sign languages studied to date and form a well-researched topic in sign language linguistics. Yet, these elements are still subject to much debate with respect to a variety of matters. Several different...