TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klima,Edward S.
AU  - Bellugi,Ursula
TI  - The signs of language
SN  - 0674807960
U1  - 419 
PY  - 1979///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Sign language
N1  - Introduction --; Part I; The Two Faces of Sign --; 1; Iconicity in Signs and Signing --; 2; Properties of Symbols in a Silent Language --; 3; Historical Change: From Iconic to Arbitrary --; Part II; The Structure of the Sign --; 4; Remembering without Words: Manual Memory --; 5; Slips of the Hands --; 6; A Comparison of Chinese and American Signs --; 7; A Feature Analysis of Handshapes --; 8; The Rate of Speaking and Signing --; Part III; Grammatical Processes --; 9; On the Creation of New Lexical Items by Compounding --; 10; Linguistic Expression of Category Levels --; 11; Aspectual Modulations on Adjectival Predicates --; 12; The Structured Use of Space and Movement: Morphological Processes --; Part IV; The Heightened Use of Language --; 13; Wit and Plays on Signs --; 14; Poetry and Song in a Language without Sound --; Appendix A; Notation --; Appendix B; Conventions Employed in Illustrations
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