Where do nouns come from?

Editor

John B. Haviland | University of California, San Diego

[Gesture, 13:3] 2013. v, 175 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 July 2014

https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.13.3

Table of Contents

Where do nouns come from?
Introduction: Where does “Where do nouns come from?” come from? John B. Haviland	245–252
The noun–verb distinction in two young sign languages Oksana Tkachman and Wendy Sandler	253–286
Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons Carol A. Padden, Irit Meir, So-One Hwang, Ryan Lepic, Aron Seegers Marie and Tory Sampson	287–308
The emerging grammar of nouns in a first generation sign language: Specification, iconicity, and syntax John B. Haviland	309–353
How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign Dea Hunsicker and Susan Goldin-Meadow	354–376
Article
Using space to talk and gesture about numbers: Evidence from the TV News Archive Bodo Winter, Marcus Perlman and Teenie Matlock	377–408
New and recent publications	409–411
Notes
Further information and weblinks	413–414
Join ISGS: International Society for Gesture Studies	415
Recent and forthcoming events	417–418
Erratum	419

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Communication Studies

Electronic/Multimedia Products

Linguistics

Cognition and language

Signed languages

Gesture Studies

Psychology

Cognitive psychology