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An Introduction New 4th Edition Completely Revised and Updated with New DVD Clayton Valli, Ceil Lucas, and Kristin J. Mulrooney View the table of contents. View the DVD contents. Read an excerpt from part 3. Read reviews: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, The Midwest Book Review. $75.00s

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Contents

DVD Contents   x
Preface to Fourth Edition   xi
Introduction   xiii

Part One Basic Concepts

Defining Language   1

Part Two Phonology

Unit 1     Signs Have Parts   17
Unit 2     The Stokoe System   23
Unit 3     The Concept of Sequentiality in the Description of Signs   28
Unit 4     The Liddell and Johnson Movement-Hold Model   34
Unit 5     Phonological Processes   40
Unit 6     Summary   44

Part Three Morphology and Syntax

Unit 1     Phonology vs. Morphology   49
Unit 2     Deriving Nouns from Verbs in ASL   51
Unit 3     Compounds   56
Unit 4     Lexicalized Fingerspelling and Loan Signs   62
Unit 5     Numeral Incorporation   70
Unit 6     The Function of Space in ASL   74
Unit 7     Verbs in ASL   76
Unit 8     Simple Sentences in ASL   84
Unit 9     Classifier Predicates   90
Unit 10   Classifier Predicates and Signer Perspective   100
Unit 11   Temporal Aspect   105
Unit 12   Derivational vs. Inflectional Morphology   110
Unit 13   Syntax   113
Unit 14   Basic Sentence Types   127
Unit 15   Time in ASL   135

Part Four Semantics

Unit 1     The Meaning of Individual Signs   141
Unit 2     The Meaning of Sentences   152

Part Five Language in Use

Unit 1     Variation and Historical Change   161
Unit 2     ASL Discourse   169
Unit 3     Bilingualism and Language Contact   177
Unit 4     Language as Art   184

Part Six Supplemental Readings

Analyzing Signs   193
     Robbin Battison

File 1.1 Why Study Language?   213

File 1.2 Course Objectives   215

File 1.3 “Good” Language   218

File 1.4 Arbitrariness in Language   224

Signs Have Parts: A Simple Idea   230
     Robbin Battison

Introduction to A Dictionary of American Sign Language   242
     William C. Stokoe, Dorothy C. Casterline, and Carl G. Croneberg

File 3.1 What Is Phonetics?   258

File 3.2 Representing Speech Sounds   260

File 4.1 What Is Phonology?   265

File 4.2 The Value of Sounds: Phonemes   267

File 4.3 Phonological Rules   273

American Sign Language: the Phonological Base   280
     Scott K. Liddell and Robert E. Johnson

File 5.1 Morphology: Words and Word Formation   320

File 5.3 The Hierarchical Structure of Words   325

File 5.4 Morphological Processes   328

The Confluence of Space and Language in Signed Languages   336
     Karen Emmorey

Indicating Verbs and Pronouns: Pointing Away from Agreement   365
     Scott K. Liddell

Syntax: Sentences and Their Structure   378
     Edward Finegan and Niko Besnier

Syntax: The Analysis of Sentence Structure   382
     William O’Grady

Semantics: The Analysis of Meaning   412
     William O’Grady

File 10.1 Introduction to Language Variation   440

File 10.2 Variation at Different Levels of Linguistic Structure   444

File 10.3 Language and Socioeconomic Status   446

Analyzing Variation in Sign Languages: Theoretical and Methodological Issues   451
     Rob Hoopes, Mary Rose, Robert Bayley, Ceil Lucas, Alyssa Wulf,
     Karen Petronio, and Steven Collins

Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Black Deaf Community   473
     Anthony J. Aramburo

Variation: Basic Concepts   486
     Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Clayton Valli

Discourse Analysis   490
     Melanie Metzger and Ben Bahan

Language Contact in the American Deaf Community   516
     Ceil Lucas and Clayton Valli

Index   539

Clayton Valli was Assistant Professor in the Master’s Interpreting Program at Gallaudet University.

Ceil Lucas is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Gallaudet University.

Kristin J. Mulrooney is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Gallaudet University.

ISBN 1-56368-283-4, 7 x 10 casebound, 560 pages, illustrations, photographs, notes, references, DVD, index

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