Irish sign language : a cognitive linguistic account / Lorraine Leeson and John I. Saeed.
Material type: TextPublication 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
- 419 LEE
- P117.5.I73
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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.