Where do nouns come from? / edited by John B. Haviland, University of California, San Diego.

Contributor(s): Haviland, John Beard [editor.]
Language: English Series: Benjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; 70Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789027268501 (pdf)Subject(s): Speech and gesture -- Study and teaching | Sign language -- Study and teaching | Gesture -- Psychological aspects | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun phrase | Interpersonal communication -- Psychological aspects | Anthropological linguisticsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 419 LOC classification: P117Online resources: Full text available at ProQuest Ebook Central Click here to view
Contents:
Table of Contents Where do nouns come from? Introduction: Where does ?Where do nouns come from?? come from? John B. Haviland 1 ? 8 The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages Oksana Tkachman and Wendy Sandler 9 ? 41 Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons Carol A. Padden, Irit Meir, So-One Hwang, Ryan Lepic, Sharon Seegers and Tory Sampson 43 ? 63 The emerging grammar of nouns in a first generation sign language: Specification, iconicity, and syntax John B. Haviland 65 ? 110 How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign Dea Hunsicker and Susan Goldin-Meadow 111 ? 133 Subject index 135 ? 136 Name index 139 ? 140
Summary: The noun is an apparent cross-linguistic universal; nouns are central targets of language acquisition; they are frequently prototypical exemplars of Saussurian arbitrariness. This volume considers nouns in sign languages and in the evanescent performances of homesigners (and gesturers), which exhibit considerable iconic motivation. Do such systems mark nouns formally? Do they share strategies for forming nominal expressions? Individual chapters consider formal criteria for a noun/verb distinction in sign languages with different socio-linguistic profiles, strategies of ?patterned iconicity? in a subcategory of nouns in both well-established and emerging sign languages, grammatical markers for a nominal class in a first generation family homesign system from Mexico, and the changing role of handshapes in signs referring to action and objects over the gradual development of a single deaf child?s homesign. The volume is of special interest to scholars of gesture, sign languages, linguistic typology, and the evolution, socialization, and ethnography of language.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents
Where do nouns come from?

Introduction: Where does ?Where do nouns come from?? come from?
John B. Haviland

1 ? 8
The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages
Oksana Tkachman and Wendy Sandler

9 ? 41
Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons
Carol A. Padden, Irit Meir, So-One Hwang, Ryan Lepic, Sharon Seegers and Tory Sampson

43 ? 63
The emerging grammar of nouns in a first generation sign language: Specification, iconicity, and syntax
John B. Haviland

65 ? 110
How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign
Dea Hunsicker and Susan Goldin-Meadow

111 ? 133
Subject index

135 ? 136
Name index

139 ? 140

The noun is an apparent cross-linguistic universal; nouns are central targets of language acquisition; they are frequently prototypical exemplars of Saussurian arbitrariness. This volume considers nouns in sign languages and in the evanescent performances of homesigners (and gesturers), which exhibit considerable iconic motivation. Do such systems mark nouns formally? Do they share strategies for forming nominal expressions? Individual chapters consider formal criteria for a noun/verb distinction in sign languages with different socio-linguistic profiles, strategies of ?patterned iconicity? in a subcategory of nouns in both well-established and emerging sign languages, grammatical markers for a nominal class in a first generation family homesign system from Mexico, and the changing role of handshapes in signs referring to action and objects over the gradual development of a single deaf child?s homesign. The volume is of special interest to scholars of gesture, sign languages, linguistic typology, and the evolution, socialization, and ethnography of language.

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