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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Linguistics
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Diane Brentari
Coordinator Office Hours:
by appointment
Teaching Staff:
Prof Diane Brentari
Course/Module description:
This course will provide an overview of the grammar of sign languages—shared properties among them and crosslinguistic differences. Topics to be covered in this course include phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and prosody. No previous knowledge of a sign language is required.
Course/Module aims:
This course provides and overview of the grammar focusing on issues of (1) iconicity, meaning and morphology; (2) language acquisition and language emergence; (3) the influence of communication modality on linguistic and neurophysiology.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Students will be able to describe properties that signed and spoken languages share and do not share. Students will be able to describe properties that differ across sign languages.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture & Discussion
Course/Module Content:
*Course/Module content
Week 1: Introduction to the Lexicon and issues of Modality
Week 2: Phonology & Phonetics
Week 3: Word classes, Agreement, Affixes, Classifiers
Week 4: Word Order, Sentence Types, Subordination, Coordination.
Week 5: Semantics Negation, reported "speech"
Week 6: Prosody, Prominence
Required Reading:
WEEK 1
Pfau, M. Steinbach, & B. Woll, eds. 2012. Handbook of Sign Language Linguistics, Berlin:Mouton. chapter 25 (25: Language and Modality, Richard Meier)
Brentari, D., & C. Padden. 2001. A language with multiple origins: Native and foreign vocabulary in American Sign Language. In D. Brentari, ed., Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Language: A Cross-linguistic Investigation of Word Formation, 87-119. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
WEEK 2
Brentari, D. 2019. Sign Language Phonology. Key Topics in Phonology Series. Cambridge University Press. chapter 1, 3
*Required reading
WEEK 1
Pfau, M. Steinbach, & B. Woll, eds. 2012. Handbook of Sign Language Linguistics, Berlin:Mouton. chapter 25 (25: Language and Modality, Richard Meier)
WEEK 2
Brentari, D. 2019. Sign Language Phonology. Key Topics in Phonology Series. Cambridge University Press. chapter 1, 3
WEEK 3
Pfau, M. Steinbach, & B. Woll, eds. 2012 Handbook of Sign Language Linguistics, Berlin:Mouton. chapter 5,8 (5: Word Classes and Word Formation, Irit Meir; 8; Classifiers, Inge Zwitserlood)
Benedicto, E., and D. Brentari. 2004. Where did all the arguments go?: Argument-changing properties of Classifiers in ASL. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 22(4), 743-810.
WEEK 4
Pfau, M. Steinbach, & B. Woll, eds. 2012 Handbook of Sign Language Linguistics, Berlin:Mouton. chapter 14, 16 (14: Sentence Types, Carlo Cecchetto; 16: Coordination and Subordination, Gladys Tang & Prudence Lau)
WEEK 5
Pfau, M. Steinbach, & B. Woll, eds. 2012 Handbook of Sign Language Linguistics, Berlin:Mouton. chapter 15, 17 (15: Negation, Josep Quer); 17 Utterance Reports & Constructed Action, Diane Lillo-Martin)
WEEK 6
Brentari, D. 2019. Sign Language Phonology. Key Topics in Phonology Series. Cambridge University Press. chapter 4, 116-131.
Brentari, D., J. Falk, A. Giannakiou, A. Herrmann, E. Volk, and M. Steinbach. 2018. Production and Comprehension of Prosodic Markers in Sign Language Imperatives. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences (Special Issue on Visual Language)
Additional Reading Material:
Meir, Irit, and Wendy Sandler. 2002. A Language in space. Haifa: University of Haifa Press.
available in Hebrew online at the HUJ library:
https://kotar-cet-ac-il.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/KotarApp/Viewer.aspx?nBookID&eq;96620495
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 20 %
Assignments 60 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 20 %
participation/attendance
Additional information:
The required readings and assignment materials will be available on the Moodle site.
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