dissertation abstracts
Typological approach of meaningful components in several sign languages (SLs) with varying degrees of social integration
Consequences for SL typology and contribution of a first phylogenetic examination of Marajó Island SLs
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Foundations of typology as a discipline and implications for SL typology
- 1.2Theoretical approach on SL emergence and SL variation
- 1.3Hypothesis and research questions
- 1.4Data
- 1.4.1Data from Soure
- 1.4.1.1Context and specific research questions
- 1.4.1.2Data gathering
- 2.Existence of a common core of form-meaning components between SLs
- 2.1Methodology
- 2.1.1Analysis of Soure’s data with ELAN
- 2.1.2Analysis of handshape inventories
- 2.2Results and discussion
- 2.2.1A common core of form-meaning components
- 2.2.2The impact of methodology on inventories
- 3.A phylogenetic and ontogenetic approach to Soure SLs: The structural bifurcation
- 3.1Methodology
- 3.2Results and discussion
- 3.2.1Variation between signers
- 3.2.2The issue of units of lexicalization/stabilization
- 4.General conclusion
- 4.1Human conceptual primitives
- 4.2Toward a SL (and micro-community SL) typology
- Notes
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