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Schuster, Michal; Hirsch, Galia – Sign Language Studies, 2018
This article discusses the occurrence of voids in the intersection between Hebrew and Israeli Sign Language (ISL). Using Weizman's classification of voids (2010, 2016) in our analysis, we have discovered that languages that employ visual and auditory modalities make use of an additional category of voids: modality-induced voids. Our corpus…
Descriptors: Deafness, Sign Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Semitic Languages
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O'Meara, Carolyn; Bohnemeyer, Jurgen – Language Sciences, 2008
The nominal lexicon of Seri is characterized by a prevalence of analytical descriptive terms. We explore the consequences of this typological trait in the landscape domain. The complex landscape terms of Seri classify geographic entities in terms of their material make-up and spatial properties such as shape, orientation, and merological…
Descriptors: Uncommonly Taught Languages, Language Minorities, Dictionaries, Nouns
Riego de Rios, Maria Isabelita – Studies in Philippine Linguistics, 1989
This dictionary is a composite of four Philippine Creole Spanish dialects: Cotabato Chabacano and variants spoken in Ternate, Cavite City, and Zamboanga City. The volume contains 6,542 main lexical entries with corresponding entries with contrasting data from the three other variants. A concluding section summarizes findings of the dialect study…
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialect Studies, Dictionaries, English
Peck, Brian M., Comp. – 1988
The bibliography contains a listing of language families and language taxonomies for India, a map showing the general distribution of those languages, and listings of dictionaries for those languages. Each listing contains basic bibliographic information and the catalogue number assigned to that volume in the University of Arizona's library.…
Descriptors: Austro Asiatic Languages, Bengali, Dictionaries, Dravidian Languages