Author: Neidle, Carol Jan.
Title: The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure.
Description: Cambridge, MA. : The MIT Press, 2000. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 239 pp.(Language, Speech, and Communication) - Signed languages provide illuminating evidence about functional projections of a kind unavailable in the study of spoken languages. Along with manual signing, crucial information is expressed by specific movements of the face and upper body. The authors argue that such nonmanual markings are often direct expressions of abstract syntactic features. The distribution and intensity of these markings provide information about the location of functional heads and the boundaries of functional projections. The authors show how evidence from ASL is useful for evaluating a number of recent theoretical proposals on, among other things, the status of syntactic agreement projections and constraints on phrase structure and the directionality of movement.English text. Condition : fine & unread. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780262140676.

Keywords: LINGUISTICS,