Inuit Sign Language: a contribution to sign language typology

Sign language typology is a fairly new research field and typological classifications have yet to be established. For spoken languages, these classifications are generally based on typological parameters; it would thus be desirable to establish these for sign languages. In this paper, different typo...

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Main Authors: J. Schuit, A. Baker, R. Pfau
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2011
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inuit
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.343335
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spelling ftunivamstpubl:oai:uvapub:343335 2023-05-15T16:54:43+02:00 Inuit Sign Language: a contribution to sign language typology J. Schuit A. Baker R. Pfau 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.343335 en eng It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content licence (like Creative Commons). Linguistics in Amsterdam (18784569) vol.4 (2011) nr.1 p.1 article 2011 ftunivamstpubl 2015-11-19T11:26:16Z Sign language typology is a fairly new research field and typological classifications have yet to be established. For spoken languages, these classifications are generally based on typological parameters; it would thus be desirable to establish these for sign languages. In this paper, different typological aspects of sign languages are described. With respect to their potential contribution towards a typological classification, data from Inuit Sign Language regarding verb agreement and classifiers will be considered. We will suggest two classifications based on these morphosyntactic parameters. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Universiteit van Amsterdam: Digital Academic Repository (UvA DARE)
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description Sign language typology is a fairly new research field and typological classifications have yet to be established. For spoken languages, these classifications are generally based on typological parameters; it would thus be desirable to establish these for sign languages. In this paper, different typological aspects of sign languages are described. With respect to their potential contribution towards a typological classification, data from Inuit Sign Language regarding verb agreement and classifiers will be considered. We will suggest two classifications based on these morphosyntactic parameters.
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title_short Inuit Sign Language: a contribution to sign language typology
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title_full_unstemmed Inuit Sign Language: a contribution to sign language typology
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op_source Linguistics in Amsterdam (18784569) vol.4 (2011) nr.1 p.1
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