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Makaroglu, Bahtiyar – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
From the point of word formation, the phenomenon of lexical blending is a common productive process, entailing the notion of combination of lexemes in so many languages. In the vast majority of literature on blends, they preserve a linear formation of segments with a shortening of both lexemes. However, in sign languages where morphological…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Morphology (Languages), Classification, Computational Linguistics
Leal, Priscila, Ed.; West, Gordon, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2015
The theme for this year's annual graduate student conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (LLL) was "Your Voice, My Voice: Literature, Language, Culture and Society." Translation and interpretation guided the theme for the conference, with Dr. Marvin Puakea Nogelmeier of the Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian…
Descriptors: History, Translation, Literature, Mothers
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Wilbur, Ronnie B.; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1985
Presents a list of classifiers in American Sign Language and describes a study of their semantic characteristics. Classifiers are defined as certain hand shapes in particular orientations that stand for certain semantic features of noun arguments and which may substitute for particular nouns in various semantic environments, thereby functioning as…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Classification, Deafness, Language Research
Matthews, Patrick A. – TEANGA: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Ways in which the lexicon of Irish Sign Language (ISL) has developed, and how it is being continually extended, are examined. Change occurs in several ways. Research to date indicates that there are 59 basic handshapes, from which all vocabulary items are created. Classifiers are used extensively in the nominal and verbal system of ISL, and 15 of…
Descriptors: Classification, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Irish