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Evaluative Constructions in Italian Sign Language (Lis): A Multi-Theoretical Analysis

Evaluative Constructions in Italian Sign Language (Lis): A Multi-Theoretical Analysis

Fornasiero, Elena

Hardcover

Series: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [Sldc], Book 17

Sign LanguageGrammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110783398
ISBN13: 9783110783391
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Sep 18 2023
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The domain of evaluative morphology is vast and complex, as it requires the combination of morphological, semantic and pragmatic information to be understood. Nevertheless, cross-linguistic studies on spoken languages show that languages share some patterns in the way they encode evaluative features. It follows that investigating evaluative morphology in sign languages (SLs) can enrich the literature and offer new insights. This book provides descriptive and theoretical contributions by considering Italian Sign Language (LIS) as empirical ground of investigation. At the descriptive level, the analysis of corpus and elicited data improves the description of morphological processes in LIS, as well as typological studies on evaluative morphology by adding the patterns of a visuo-gestural language. At the theoretical level, the study shows the benefit of combining different approaches (Generative Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Cognitive Linguistics) for the exploration of evaluative constructions in SLs, as it allows to identify both modality-specific and modality-independent properties.

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