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SEMANTIC FIELDS IN SIGN LANGUAGES GEBUNDEN

Typological studies require a broad range of linguistic data from a variety of countries 
especially developing nations whose languages are under-researched. This is especially
challenging for investigations of sign languages  because there are no existing corpora for
most of them  and some are completely undocumented. To examine three cross-linguistically
fruitful semantic fields in sign languages from a typological perspective for the first time  a
detailed questionnaire was generated and distributed worldwide through emails  mailing lists 
websites and the newsletter of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD). This resulted in robust
data on kinship  colour and number in 32 sign languages across the globe  10 of which are
revealed in depth within this volume. These comprise languages from Europe  the Americas and
the Asia-Pacific region  including Indonesian sign language varieties  which are rarely
studied. Like other volumes in this series  this book will be illuminative for typologists 
students of linguistics and deaf studies  lecturers  researchers  interpreters  and sign
language users who travel internationally.

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