LINGUIST List 24.682
Wed Feb 06 2013
Diss: Lang Doc/ Psycholing/ Typology: de Vos: 'Sign-Spatiality in Kata Kolok...'
Editor for this issue: Lili Xia
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Date: 06-Feb-2013
From: Connie de Vos <connie.devos
mpi.nl>
Subject: Sign-Spatiality in Kata Kolok: How a village sign language of Bali inscribes its signing space
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Institution: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Program: Department of Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2012
Author: Connie de Vos
Dissertation Title: Sign-Spatiality in Kata Kolok: How a village sign language of Bali inscribes its signing space
Dissertation URL:
http://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/2066/99153/1/99153.pdf
Linguistic Field(s):
Language Documentation
Psycholinguistics
Typology
Dissertation Director:
Stephen C. Levinson
Nichalas J Enfield
Ulrike Zeshan
Dissertation Abstract:
This dissertation presents new data from Kata Kolok, a sign language whichemerged in a village community of North Bali, and has been the primary means ofcommunication for at least five generations of deaf, native signers (Marsaja 2008;this thesis). Supported by extensive periods of linguistic fieldwork, corpus analysis,as well as targetted, stimulus-based elicitation, it supports the claim that Kata Koloksigners structure their spatial reference system preferentially on the basis ofgeographical locations.
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