COST IS 1006 SignGram Summer School

Announcements:

For DAY 2 and DAY 3 Instructors will the students at 4:30pm.

Discussion will may continue in the garden :-)

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Practice material for Semantics is on line

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Slides for Morphology (day 2) and Syntax (day 2) are on line

The material from this webpage is reserved for students of the Summer School only

Tentative schedule for the three days

9-11 Carlo Geraci “Syllables and Beyond: a Formal Approach to Sign Language Phonology”

11:30-13:30 Aslı Göksel “Compounding”

14:30-16:30 Chiara Branchini and Josep Quer “Subordination and Role Shift”

DAY 1: 17:00-18:00 the instructors meet the students (office hours)

DAY 2 & 3: 16:30-17:30 the instructors meet the students (office hours)

Preparatory readings

For students who don’t have a background in sign linguistics (for all courses):

Sandler, W. & Lillo-Martin, D. 2006. Sign Language and Linguistic Universals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

For students who don’t have a background in formal linguistics (for all courses):

Fromkin, V. (Ed.). 2000. Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Background reference for everyone

Pfau, R., M. Steinbach & B. Woll, eds. 2012. Sign Languages (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science, HSK). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Phonology: Syllables and Beyond: a Formal Approach to Sign Language Phonology

Instructor: Carlo Geraci, CNRS, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris

Slides & Material for discussion/exercises

Lecture 1: A Formal approach to SL phonology (slides here: PART 1, PART 2, practice material here)

Lecture 2: The SL syllable and epenthetic movements (slides here, practice material here)

Lecture 3: A formal account of movement epenthesis (slides here: PART 1, PART 2, practice material here)

Readings

Brentari, Diane. 1998. A prosodic model of Sign Language Phonology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. PP. 213-230. (here)

Geraci, Carlo. 2009. Epenthesis in Italian Sign Language. Sign language and Linguistics 1. PP. 3–51.(here)

Geraci, Carlo. 2009. Real World and Copying Epenthesis: the case of classifier predicates in Italian Sign Language. In Anisa Schardl, Martin Walkow & Muhammad Abdurrahman (eds.), Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 38, 237–250. Amherst: GLSA. ONLY SECTIONS 4-8 (here)

Kager, René. 1999. Optimality Theory. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. PP. 91-130. (here)

Background (also to-be-covered in class)

Brentari, Diane. 1998. A prosodic model of Sign Language Phonology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapters 3-4.

Kager, René. 1999. Optimality Theory. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1.

Morphology: Compounding

Instructor: Asli Goksel (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)

Slides

Lecture 1: Compounds (slides here)

Lecture 2: Compounds (slides here)

Lecture 3: Compounds (slides here)

Readings

(please note that there are selected pages for some of the articles)

Liddell, S.K. & R.E. Johnson. 1986. American Sign Language compound formation processes, lexicalization and phonological remnants. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 4(4), pp. 453-492. (here)

Meir, I. 2012. Word classes and word formation. In: Pfau, R., M. Steinbach & B. Woll (eds.), Sign language – An international handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 97-102. (here)

Meir, I., M. Aronoff, W. Sandler & C. Padden. 2010. Sign languages and compounding. In: Scalise, S. & I. Vogel (eds.), Cross-disciplinary issues in compounding. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 301-322. (here)

Scalise, S. & A. Bisetto. 2009. The classification of compounds. In: R. Lieber & P. Štekauer (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Compounding. 34-53. Dordrecht: Springer. (here)

Vercellotti, M.L. & D.R. Mortensen. 2012. A classification of compounds in American Sign Language: an evaluation of the Bisetto and Scalise framework. Morphology 22. 545-579. (here)

Syntax & Semantics: Subordination and Role Shift

Instructors: Chiara Branchini (University of Ca' Foscari, Venice)

Josep Quer (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Slides

Lecture 1: Syntactic analysis (slides here)

Lecture 2: Subordination in SL (slides here)

Lecture 3: Role shift (slides here, practice material here)

Readings

A preparatory reading for syntax

Gelderen, E. van. 2013. Clause Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PP. 53-84. (here)

On sign language subordination

Tang, G., Lau, Prudence. (2012) Coordination and Subordination in Sign Languages. In Pfau, R., Steinbach, M., & Woll, B., (eds.), 340-365. Sign Language: An International Handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyt. (here)

On relative clauses in sign language

Branchini C., Donati C. 2009. Relatively different: Italian Sign Language relative clauses in a typological perspective. In Anikó Lipták (ed.) Correlatives Cross-linguistically. John Benjamins, pp. 157-191. (here)

On role shift in sign language

Lillo-Martin, D. 2012. Utterance Reports and Constructed Action in Sign and Spoken Languages. In Sign Languages. An International Handbook, R. Pfau, M. Steinbach & B. Woll (eds.), 365-387. Berlin: Mouton. (here)