Table of contents
Preface
Films used in the analysis
Conventions for signs and utterance examples: A Description of a Primary Sign Language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea with some comparative
discussion
0.Introduction, ethnography, corpus and methods of analysis
1.General properties of signs
2.Processes of sign formation
3.Iconicity: How signs relate to their referents
4.On the uses of pointing
5.Concurrent action
6.Aspects of discourse construction
7.Conclusions
8.References
Appendix: Signs from the Upper Lagaip Valley (Enga) described
Supplementary Essays
Sign Languages in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
Kendon’s work on a signed language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea: Some Implications
Name Index
Topic Index
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