Like many Austro-Tai languages and many Sino-Tibetan languages, Kam (Dong flšj) exhibits a wealth of descriptive syllables after the verb or the adjective. These syllables, henceforth called expressives, are typically reduplicated and cover a wide range of functions such as grading, speed and manner modification, and various kinds of sound symbolism, metaphor, etc. I propose to view the expressive compound as a sign: the predicate-head functions as the signified and the expressive as the signifier. In fact, since the predicate-head itself has the classical Saussurean sign anatomy, the head- expressive compound presents the case of a complex sign or what I call a second-order sign. The attested types of relationship that hold between the sig...
A particular type of signs has been referred to as “classifier verbs” by a number of sign language l...
Sign linguistics explores the grammar and characteristics of sign languages. The number of documente...
The paper deals with the iconic and indexical relations of lexical signs in German Sign Language (DG...
Like many Austro-Tai languages and many Sino-Tibetan languages, Kam (Dong flšj) exhibits a wealth of...
Like many Austro-Tai languages and many Sino-Tibetan languages, Kam (Dong Ш) exhibits a wealth of de...
Are linguistic signs really as arbitrary as they are assumed to be, and how exceptional are semantic...
Sign languages employ iconic strategies in their morphology in expressing spatial relations. These s...
Gérard Diffloth Expressives of Surin, and where they lead us Expressives constitute a fundamental w...
Given a certain number of basic signs (gestural lexical items), the lexicon of a sign language can e...
This paper deals with the differences of the signs and symbols because they are interchangeable in l...
Since Saussure, the idea that the forms of words are arbitrarily related to their meanings has been ...
Sign languages are visual-gestural communication systems with a great potential for iconic structure...
This dissertation reports on a linguistic investigation into the use of depicting signs in Australia...
Item does not contain fulltextThis paper discusses the several ways in which name signs can be assig...
There is growing momentum towards a theory of languaging that acknowledges the diverse semiotic repe...
A particular type of signs has been referred to as “classifier verbs” by a number of sign language l...
Sign linguistics explores the grammar and characteristics of sign languages. The number of documente...
The paper deals with the iconic and indexical relations of lexical signs in German Sign Language (DG...
Like many Austro-Tai languages and many Sino-Tibetan languages, Kam (Dong flšj) exhibits a wealth of...
Like many Austro-Tai languages and many Sino-Tibetan languages, Kam (Dong Ш) exhibits a wealth of de...
Are linguistic signs really as arbitrary as they are assumed to be, and how exceptional are semantic...
Sign languages employ iconic strategies in their morphology in expressing spatial relations. These s...
Gérard Diffloth Expressives of Surin, and where they lead us Expressives constitute a fundamental w...
Given a certain number of basic signs (gestural lexical items), the lexicon of a sign language can e...
This paper deals with the differences of the signs and symbols because they are interchangeable in l...
Since Saussure, the idea that the forms of words are arbitrarily related to their meanings has been ...
Sign languages are visual-gestural communication systems with a great potential for iconic structure...
This dissertation reports on a linguistic investigation into the use of depicting signs in Australia...
Item does not contain fulltextThis paper discusses the several ways in which name signs can be assig...
There is growing momentum towards a theory of languaging that acknowledges the diverse semiotic repe...
A particular type of signs has been referred to as “classifier verbs” by a number of sign language l...
Sign linguistics explores the grammar and characteristics of sign languages. The number of documente...
The paper deals with the iconic and indexical relations of lexical signs in German Sign Language (DG...