Linguistics in Amsterdam 4-1 (march 2011)

Inuit Sign Language: a contribution to sign language typology

Joke Schuit, Anne Baker, Roland Pfau

Universiteit van Amsterdam.


Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Sign language typology
2.1 Aspects of typological classification in spoken languages
2.2 Grammatical variation in sign languages
2.2.1 Word order
2.2.2 Morphological typology
2.2.3 Negation
2.2.4 Classifiers
2.2.5 Verb agreement
2.3 Typological classification of sign languages?
3 Inuit Sign Language
3.1 Background
3.2 Methodology
3.2.1 Participants
3.2.2 Data collection
4 Spatial grammar of Inuit Sign Language: preliminary results
4.1 Verb agreement in Inuit Sign Language
4.2 Classifiers in Inuit Sign Language
4.3 The contribution of the IUR data to sign language typology
Conclusion
Noten
References