The Use of Signing Space in a Shared Sign Language of Australia
Abstract
In this book, an Australian Aboriginal sign language used by Indigenous people in the North East Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) is described on the level of spatial grammar. Topics discussed range from properties of individual signs to structure of interrogative and negative sentences. The main interest is the manifestation of signing space - the articulatory space surrounding the signers - for grammatical purposes in Yolngu Sign Language.
Keywords
Sign Language Typology Yolngu Languages Australian Aboriginal languages Grammatical SpaceISBN
9781614515470Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
http://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
2014Series
Sign Language Typology [SLT],Classification
Language