Linguistics of American Sign Language : an introduction

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""Contents""; ""Preface to the Third Edition""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""BASIC CONCEPTS""; ""Basic Concepts""; ""PHONOLOGY""; ""Unit 1 Signs Have Parts""; ""Unit 2 The Stokoe System""; ""Unit 3 The Concept of Sequentiality in the Description of Signs""; ""Unit 4 The Movement�Hold Model""; ""Unit 5 Phonological Processes""; ""Unit 6 Summary""; ""MORPHOLOGY""; ""Unit 1 Phonology vs. Morphology""; ""Unit 2 Deriving Nouns from Verbs in ASL""; ""Unit 3 Compounds""; ""Unit 4 Lexicalized Fingerspelling and Loan Signs""; ""Unit 5 Numeral Incorporation"" Unit 6 The Function of Space in ASLUnit 7 Classifier Predicates and Locative Verbs

Unit 8 Classifier Predicates and Signer Perspective

Unit 9 Subject-Object Agreement

Unit 10 Pronouns and Determiners

Unit 11 Temporal Aspect

Unit 12 Derivational and Inflectional Morphology

Unit 13 Time in ASL

SYNTAX

Unit 1 Definitions

Unit 2 Simple Sentences with Plain Verbs

Unit 3 Simple Sentences with Agreement Verbs

Unit 4 Basic Sentence Types

SEMANTICS

Unit 1 The Meaning of Individual Signs

Unit 2 The Meaning of Sentences ""LANGUAGE IN USE""""Unit 1 Variation and Historical Change""; ""Unit 2 ASL Discourse""; ""Unit 3 Bilingualism and Language Contact""; ""Unit 4 Language as Art""; ""SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS""; ""Analyzing Signs""; ""File 4�Introduction: What Do You Know When You Know a Language""; ""File 5�Introduction: Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Rules of Grammar""; ""File 6�Introduction: Arbitrariness in Language""; ""Signs Have Parts: A Simple Idea""; ""Introduction from A Dictionary of American Sign Language""; ""File 20�Phonetics: The Sounds of Speech"" ""File 30�Phonology: The Value of Sounds: Phonemes""""American Sign Language: The Phonological Base""; ""File 40�Morphology: The Minimal Units of Meaning: Morphemes""; ""File 42�Morphology: The Hierarchical Structure of Words""; ""File 43�Morphology: Word Formation Processes""; ""The Confluence of Space and Language in Signed Languages""; ""A Class of Determiners in ASL""; ""Syntax: Sentences and Their Structure""; ""Syntax: The Study of Sentence Structure""; ""Semantics: The Study of Meaning""; ""File 120�Regional Variation: The Origin of American Dialects"" ""File 123�Regional Variation: Variation at Different Levels""""Analyzing Variation in Sign Languages: Theoretical and Methodological Issues""; ""Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Black Deaf Community""; ""Toward a Description of Register Variation in American Sign Language""; ""Features of Discourse in an American Sign Language Lecture""; ""Language Contact in the American Deaf Community""; ""Index""