Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions for sign notation
- 1 Signed languages and linguistics
- 2 Auslan in social context
- 3 Auslan and other signed languages
- 4 Phonetics and phonology: the building blocks of signs
- 5 Morphology: sign formation and modification
- 6 Lexicon: the structure of Auslan vocabulary
- 7 Syntax: the structure of sentences in Auslan
- 8 Semantics and pragmatics: sign meaning and sentence meaning
- 9 Discourse: structure and use above the sentence
- 10 Issues in the study of signed languages
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions for sign notation
- 1 Signed languages and linguistics
- 2 Auslan in social context
- 3 Auslan and other signed languages
- 4 Phonetics and phonology: the building blocks of signs
- 5 Morphology: sign formation and modification
- 6 Lexicon: the structure of Auslan vocabulary
- 7 Syntax: the structure of sentences in Auslan
- 8 Semantics and pragmatics: sign meaning and sentence meaning
- 9 Discourse: structure and use above the sentence
- 10 Issues in the study of signed languages
- References
- Index
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- Australian Sign Language (Auslan)An introduction to sign language linguistics, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007