Variation in Indonesian Sign Language: A Typological and Sociolinguistic Analysis

This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and completion. Using a corpus of spontaneous data from signers in the cities of Solo and Makassar, Palfreyman applies an innovative blend of methods from sign language typology and Variationist Sociolinguistics, with findings that have important implications for our understanding of grammaticalisation in sign languages. The book will be of interest to linguists and sociolinguists, including those without prior experience of sign language research, and to all who are curious about the history of Indonesia’s urban sign community.

Nick Palfreyman is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDS), University of Central Lancashire.

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Variation in Indonesian Sign Language: A Typological and Sociolinguistic Analysis

This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and completion. Using a corpus of spontaneous data from signers in the cities of Solo and Makassar, Palfreyman applies an innovative blend of methods from sign language typology and Variationist Sociolinguistics, with findings that have important implications for our understanding of grammaticalisation in sign languages. The book will be of interest to linguists and sociolinguists, including those without prior experience of sign language research, and to all who are curious about the history of Indonesia’s urban sign community.

Nick Palfreyman is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDS), University of Central Lancashire.

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Variation in Indonesian Sign Language: A Typological and Sociolinguistic Analysis

Variation in Indonesian Sign Language: A Typological and Sociolinguistic Analysis

by Nick Palfreyman
Variation in Indonesian Sign Language: A Typological and Sociolinguistic Analysis

Variation in Indonesian Sign Language: A Typological and Sociolinguistic Analysis

by Nick Palfreyman

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This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and completion. Using a corpus of spontaneous data from signers in the cities of Solo and Makassar, Palfreyman applies an innovative blend of methods from sign language typology and Variationist Sociolinguistics, with findings that have important implications for our understanding of grammaticalisation in sign languages. The book will be of interest to linguists and sociolinguists, including those without prior experience of sign language research, and to all who are curious about the history of Indonesia’s urban sign community.

Nick Palfreyman is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDS), University of Central Lancashire.


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ISBN-13: 9781501504761
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 01/29/2019
Series: Sign Language Typology [SLT] , #8
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 369
File size: 29 MB
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Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Nick Palfreyman, University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Table of Contents

List of tables IX

List of figures XI

Acknowledgements XV

List of informants XVII

Transcription conventions VIII

Abbreviations for sign languages XX

Map of Indonesia XXI

1 Introduction 1

Part I Background and research design

2 Analysing variation in sign language 9

3 A sociohistorical overview of the sign community 29

4 Research design and ethical considerations 77

Part II Typological and sociolinguistic analysis

5 The grammatical domain of completion 123

6 The grammatical domain of negation 173

7 Accounting For variation in Indonesian Sign Language 245

Part III Placing findings in the community context

8 Integrating the perspectives of sign community members 275

Appendix 1 The naming and delineation of sign languages 303

Appendix 2 Coding scheme for completion and negation 305

Bibliography 309

Index of signs in the text 339

Language index 345

Subject Index 349

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