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Irish sign language : a cognitive linguistic account / Lorraine Leeson and John I. Saeed.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012.Description: xii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 videodiscISBN:
  • 9780748638239 (hbk.) :
  • 9780748656295 (PDF ebook) :
  • 9780748656509 (ePub ebook) :
  • 9780748656301 (Kindle ebook) :
  • 9780748638239
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 419 LEE
LOC classification:
  • P117.5.I73
Contents:
1.Introduction --2.What is a signed language? -- 3.The historical and social context -- 4.The phoentics and phonology of ISL -- 5.Inflectional and derivational morphology -- 6.The ISL lexicon -- 7.Syntax -- 8.Discourse -- 9.Towards a cognitive account of signed languages.
Summary: As the only book of its kind, this book describes the social and historical background of this signed language and places Irish sign language in a world context. Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics are introduced using examples from the Signs of Ireland corpus.
Holdings
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 419 LEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 215947
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 419 LEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 215946
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 419 LEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 215948
Long Loan Nursing collection room Athlone CD 419 LEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) CD 241 1 Available 217496
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone CD 419 LEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) CD 989 1 Available 217498
Long Loan Nursing collection room Athlone CD 419 LEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) CD NUR 240 1 Available 217497

DVD.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Introduction --2.What is a signed language? -- 3.The historical and social context -- 4.The phoentics and phonology of ISL -- 5.Inflectional and derivational morphology -- 6.The ISL lexicon -- 7.Syntax -- 8.Discourse -- 9.Towards a cognitive account of signed languages.

As the only book of its kind, this book describes the social and historical background of this signed language and places Irish sign language in a world context. Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics are introduced using examples from the Signs of Ireland corpus.

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