Workshop on cross-linguistic issues in sign languages: phonology and morphology; Albuquerque, NM, June 26-August 4, 1995

9420873 摘要 这笔赠款将部分支助为期六周的手语跨语言问题研究讲习班，该讲习班将与1995年在阿尔伯克基的新墨西哥州大学举行的为期六周的美国语言学会暑期研究所同时举行，并作为其一部分。研讨会有四个目标。首先，它将允许受过语言学家培训的学者，他们也精通手语，聚集在一起，以解决一系列关于手语结构及其语言表现的明确的经验问题。这些问题的答案将使我们进一步区分什么是语言特有的符号结构，什么是所有手语的共同点。这次工作坊的手语组别包括：意大利手语、挪威手语、魁北克手语、荷兰手语、日本手语、香港手语、英国手语及美国手语。研讨会的第二个目标是促进基于一套共同的理论工具的新的跨语言手语研究的形成，并在研讨会的讲座和阅读中提出。讲习班的第三个目标是为编辑一本关于手语语音学和形态学中跨语言问题的书奠定基础。最后，通过在LSA夏季语言研究所举办这次研讨会，我们希望向感兴趣的学生和学者群体开放手语中跨语言问题的讨论，并促进有关手势和符号分析的跨学科工作。

9420873 ABSTRACT This grant will partially support a six-week research workshop on cross-linguistic issues in sign language to run concurrently with, and as part of, the six weeks of the 1995 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. The workshop has four objectives. First it will allow scholars trained as linguists who also are fluent in a sign language to come together in order to address a well-defined set of empirical questions about sign language structure and its linguistic representation. The answers to these questions will take us a step further in distinguishing what is language-particular about sign structure from what is common to all sign languages. The group of sign languages targeted in this workshop are: Italian Sign Language, Norwegian Sign Language, Langue des signes quebecoises, Sign Language of the Netherlands, Japanese Sign Language, Hong Kong Sign Language, British Sign Language, and American Sign Language. The second objective of the workshop is to facilitate the formation of new cross-linguistic sign language research based on a common set of theoretical tools, to be presented in the lectures and readings of the workshop. The third objective of the workshop is to lay the groundwork for an edited volume on the topic of cross-linguistic issues in sign language phonology and morphology. Finally, by conducting this workshop at the LSA Summer Linguistic Institute we expect to open the discussion of cross-linguistic issues in sign languages to interested groups of students and scholars and to facilitate interdisciplinary work concerning the analysis of gesture and sign.