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Direct linkRachel McKee; Mireille Vale – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This paper examines recent lexical expansion in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) in the context of change in the status of the language and ongoing contact with other (spoken and signed) languages. We categorised 917 new signs documented in the past five years according to their source, semantic field, and sign formation mechanism(s), both…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Semiotics, Linguistic Borrowing, Phrase Structure
Download full textSutton-Spence, Rachel – 1994
Just as minority spoken languages borrow from surrounding majority languages, so British Sign Language (BSL) borrows signs from English. BSL may borrow from both spoken and written English, but here we focus on the processes involved in borrowing from the written English word, using the manual alphabet. The end result of borrowing depends on an…
Descriptors: Deafness, Discourse Analysis, Finger Spelling, Foreign Countries
