Pfau Roland, Steinbach Markus, Herrmann Annika (eds.) A Matter of Complexity: Subordination in Sign Languages

De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 218 p. — (Sign Languages and Deaf Communities). — ISBN10: 1501511335, ISBN13: 978-1501511332.This book discusses issues of complex sentences and discourse in sign and spoken languages, focusing on modality-specific and modality-independent aspects of such complex structures. The chapters address prosodic, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of complex sentences and text/discourse structures from an empirical, typological, and theoretical perspective.Notational conventions and sign language acronyms
Complex sentences in sign languages – modality, typology, discourse
Roland Pfau & Markus Steinbach
Preference for clause order in complex sentences with adverbial clauses in American Sign Language
Ronnie B. Wilbur
Observations on clausal complementation in Turkish Sign Language
Ash Göksel & Meltem Kelepir
An in-depth tour into sentential complementation in Italian Sign Language
Carlo Geraci & Valentino Aristodemo
Embedding polar interrogative clauses in American Sign Language
Kathryn Davidson & Ivano Caponigro
Relativization in Italian Sign Language: the missing link of relativization
Carlo Cecchetto & Caterina Donati
Reporting with and without role shift: sign language strategies of complementation
Josep Quer
An annotation scheme to investigate the form and function of hand dominance in the Corpus NGT
Onno Crasborn & Anna Sáfár
Language index
Subject index