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- From: I.Greftegref@AVH.UNIT.NO (Irene Greftegreff)
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- Subject: Nordic Journal special issue
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- [Note from Bill McGarry - this is from the Sign Language Linguistics List]
-
- I'm posting the following on behalf of the Editors.
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- Volume 15, No. 2 (1992) of
- Nordic Journal of Linguistics will be a special issue
- devoted to sign language linguistics.
-
- This collection of papers, small though it is, fully demonstrates the
- diversity of sign language linguistics and how far this field of study
- has advanced. It is only appropriate that two of the papers deal with
- American Sign Language (ASL), as ASL has been much more thoroughly
- than any other sign language. Of the remaining three papers, one takes
- its studied data from Taiwan Sign Language, one from Danish Sign Language,
- and one from Norwegian Sign Language.
-
- The papers are:
-
- Debra Aarons, Benjamin Bahan, Judy Kegl & Carol Neidle:
- "Clausal Structure and a Tier for Grammatical Marking in
- American Sign Language"
-
- Aarons et al. make five fundamental claims about the clausal structure
- of American Sign Language, challenging a number of accepted claims about
- ASL syntax. The authors posit an underlying clause structure for ASL,
- which is argued to be recoverable on the basis of evidence of various
- sorts, including constraints on the spreading of non-manual scope-
- indicating signals.
-
- Jean Ann:
- "Physiological Constraints in Taiwan Sign Language Handshape-
- Change"
-
- Ann's paper deals with the physiological phonetics of signed languages,
- specifically with how hand physiology constrains attested handshape-
- changes in signs taken from Taiwan Sign Language. Her study should be
- viewed as a prolegomenon to the study of marked and unmarked features
- of handshapes and handshape-changes across sign languages.
-
- Irene Greftegreff:
- "Orientation in Indexical Signs in Norwegian Sign Language"
-
- On the basis of her critical appraisal of some proposed analyses of hand
- orientation and movement directionality in sign language phonology,
- Greftegreff, drawing on her native knowledge of Norwegian sign language
- (NTS), proposes to redefine the traditional "locus" (or "tab") concept as
- the area which the hands move in relation to in the production of a sign,
- rather than simply the place where the sign is executed.
-
- Karen van Hoek:
- "Conceptual Spaces and Pronominal Reference in American Sign
- Language"
-
- Van Hoek's' study of the use of pronominal signs in American Sign
- Language has led her to adopt a new conception of the function of those
- points in the signing space that are termed "referential loci". She
- demonstrates that such points may invoke not only a mental
- representation of a given referent but also a representation of the
- conceived context in which referents are embedded.
-
- Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen:
- "Point of View in Danish Sign Language"
-
- Engberg-Pedersen argues for the replacement of the undifferentiated term
- "role shifting", as applied to sign language discourse, by terms referring to
- three phenomena that should be kept apart because they do not necessarily
- coincide in utterances: "shifted reference", "shifted attribution of
- expressive elements", and "shifted locus".
-
- Non-subscribers to Nordic Journal of Linguistics may purchase this
- single issue by writing to:
-
- Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget AS)
- P.O. Box 1959 Toyen
- N-0608 Oslo
- Norway
- The price is US $ 38.00, or NOK 220,-.
-
- Thorstein Fretheim, Editor
-