Description - Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages by Karen Emmorey
This volume is the culmination of work discussed and presented at the Workshop on Classifier Constructions. Its major goals are to bring to light critical issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions. It is hoped that by doing so, more researchers will be inspired to investigate the nature of classifier constructions across signed languages and further explore the unique aspects of these forms. Divided into four parts, the papers in this volume discuss the issues of: how sign language classifiers differ from spoken languages; cross-linguistic variation in sign language classifier systems; the role of gesture; the nature of morpho-syntactic and phonological constraints on classifier constructions; the grammaticization process for these forms; and the acquisition of classifier forms. Each section focuses on a particular issue and papers that discuss general questions, as well as comment on specific issues are presented at the end of each section.
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