A crosslinguistic study of the language of space : sign and spoken languages / by Engin Arik.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-158).

"This book examines spatial language in sign languages (Turkish Sign Language, Croatian Sign Language, American Sign Language, and Austrian Sign Language) and spoken languages (Turkish, English, and Croatian). The book presents a novel model, the Crossmodal Spatial Language, to account for similarities and differences in these languages. The model, which consists of spatial representations, reference frames, temporal representations, conceptual structure, and linguistic representations, shows that the features from spatial input are not necessarily mapped on the spatial descriptions regardless of modality and language."--Jacket

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Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 3 Methodology -- Chapter 4 Describing Static Situations with Left-Right vs. Front-Back -- Chapter 5 Describing Static Situations with Next-to, In, and On -- Chapter 6 Describing Motion Events with To vs. Toward -- Chapter 7 Describing Motion Events with Pass-by vs. Away -- Chapter 8 Describing Causative Motion Events -- Chapter 9 Conclusion and Future Directions -- List of References.

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