Sign language archaeology [electronic resource] : understanding the historical roots of American sign language / Ted Supalla, Patricia Clark.
"This study investigates the origins of American Sign Language, its evolution from French Sign Language, and evidence about the word formation process of ASL, including data from the 19th and early 20th century dictionaries"--
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Gallaudet University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Seminal Work on ""Sign Lanugage Archaeology"" ; Chapter 2: Seeking Appropriate Tools for Studying Historical Change ; Chapter 3: Conception of the Language Plan; Chapter 4: Who's Who in the Gallaudet Lecture Film Series; Chapter 5: Seeking Historical Links for an ASL Lexicon; Chapter 6: Revisiting Dactylology ; Chapter 7: Reconstructing the History of Ideas about Sign Language ; Chapter 8: Rediscovering a Literary Legacy for the Deaf American Vote; Chapter 9: Fate of the NAD Language Plan and Subsequent Revival of ASL.
- Chapter 10: Emergent Methodology for Sign Language Etymology Chapter 11: Development of Morphology Unique to ASL ; Chapter 12: The Impace of Theory and Practice on the Deaf Community ; Bibliography ; Index.