Sign language in Papua New Guinea : a primary sign language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province / Adam Kendon ; with contributions by Sherman Wilcox and by Lauren W. Reed and Alan Rumsey.

"This book presents in revised form and as a single monograph three papers on a sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea. Originally published in 1980, for more than twenty years these papers remained the only report of a sign language from that part of the world. The detailed d...

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Main Author: Kendon, Adam (Author)
Other Authors: Wilcox, Sherman (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
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245 1 0 |a Sign language in Papua New Guinea :  |b a primary sign language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province /  |c Adam Kendon ; with contributions by Sherman Wilcox and by Lauren W. Reed and Alan Rumsey. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Intro -- Sign Language in Papua New Guinea -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Films used in the analysis -- Conventions for signs and utterance examples: Conventions followed in referring to signs in the text and in the presentation of examples of signed utterances -- Introduction -- 0.1 Ethnographic status of the sign language -- 0.2 The corpus -- 0.2.1 EKD I, II -- 0.2.2 EKD III -- 0.2.3 EKD IV. 1 -- 0.2.4 EKD IV. 2 -- 0.2.5 Additional material -- 0.3 Procedures of analysis -- 0.3.1 Preparation of the films and the apparatus used -- 0.3.2 Obtaining a gloss. 
505 8 |a 1. General properties of signs -- 2. Processes of sign formation -- 2.1 The formation of Enga signs -- 2.1.1 The formation of manual signs -- 2.1.1.1 Locus of articulation -- 2.1.1.2 Hand configurations -- 2.1.1.3 Movement -- 2.2 Comparison of aspects of Enga sign formation with that of other sign languages -- 2.3 Combined action signs -- 2.3.1 Trunk action -- 2.3.2 Head action -- 2.3.3 Facial action -- 2.3.4 Mouth action -- 2.4 Signs for bodily feelings and emotional state -- 2.5 Facial signs -- 3. Iconicity: How signs relate to their referents -- 3.1 Processes of signification. 
505 8 |a 3.2 Base realization and feature selection -- 3.2.1 Presenting -- 3.2.2 Pointing -- 3.2.3 Characterizing -- 3.2.3.1 Enactment -- 3.2.3.2 Body modeling -- 3.2.3.3 Virtual depiction -- 3.3 How the base relates to the referent -- 3.3.1 Presenting signs -- 3.3.2 Pointing signs -- 3.3.3 Characterizing signs: Enactment -- 3.3.3.1 Mimetic enactment signs -- 3.3.3.2 Analogic enactment signs -- 3.3.4 Characterizing signs realized by modeling, sketching, and measuring -- 3.3.5 Conclusions -- 3.4 Sign realization devices in two unrelated sign languages -- 4. On the uses of pointing. 
505 8 |a 4.1 Pronominal reference -- 4.2 Spatial reference -- 4.3 Moving points -- 4.4 Nonspatial pointing -- 4.5 Anaphoric uses of pointing -- 4.6 Discussion -- 5. Concurrent action -- 5.1 Simultaneous signing -- 5.2 'Affixual' actions -- 5.3 Sustained concurrent action -- 5.3.1 Bracketing functions of concurrent action -- 5.3.2 Metacommunicative functions of concurrent action -- 5.3.3 Supplementing functions -- 5.3.4 Display of current attitude -- 6. Aspects of discourse construction -- 6.1 Phrasal juncture -- 6.2 The sequential.arrangement of signs in phrases. 
505 8 |a 6.3 How subjects and objects are related to their verbs -- 6.4 The handling of temporal reference -- 6.5 Questions -- 6.5.1 Manual question signs -- The double palm presentation -- Single upward lateral hand flip -- Where? -- 6.5.2 Facial question markers -- 6.5.3 Place of the question marker in the sign sequence -- 6.5.4 Termination of question utterances -- 6.5.5 Discussion: Kinesic features of questioning -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix: Signs from the Upper Lagaip Valley (Enga) described -- Description of signs -- Signs for bodily feeling -- Signs for feelings and emotions. 
520 |a "This book presents in revised form and as a single monograph three papers on a sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea. Originally published in 1980, for more than twenty years these papers remained the only report of a sign language from that part of the world. The detailed descriptive analyses that the author provided are still fresh today, and in some respects they anticipate insights into the nature of sign languages that were not further explored until much more recently. The monograph is accompanied by two essays: Sherman Wilcox comments on value and relevance of the author's work in the light of much more recent work on the linguistics of sign languages. An essay by Lauren Reed and Alan Rumsey provides an up to date survey of what is now known about sign languages in Papua New Guinea. Information about sign languages in the Solomon Island is also included"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
588 |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 28, 2020) 
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