Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change

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Syllabus

Module 1
  • Fundamental issues for language status
  • Emergence and evolution of sign language
  • History of American Sign Language
  • Variation and change within ASL
  • Lexical representation and annotation
  • Cognitive processing
  • From transparent to opaque morphology
  • Literary innovation constrained by grammar
  • Framework for Sign Language Structure, Learning and Change

Module 2
  • Sign features and syntactic packaging
  • Co-articulation and timing of suprasegmentals
  • Interaction of syntax and prosody
  • The spatial architecture for linguistic scaffolding
  • Reference frame and spatial verb typology
  • Core lexemes and frozen derivatives
  • Layering of lexical representation and articulatory operations
  • Linear template and syntactic agreement slots
  • Optimizing loan words for syntactic agreement
  • Split between inflectional space and lexicon
 
Module 3
  • Biological and environmental factors for language acquisition and evolution
  • Challenge of designing a visual language based on English morphology
  • Potential impact of visual analogy on grammar
  • Morphological typology and complexity
  • The neurobiology of sign language processing
  • Reframing ASL as a classifier predicate language
  • Acquisition of ASL morphology
  • Best-fit architecture and cognitive scaffolding
  • Factors affecting homogenous use of sign language
  • Natural experiment for language evolution

Module 4
  • Sign language archaeology
  • Emergence of grammar
  • Gestural discourse dynamics and collective memory
  • Historical sociolinguistics
  • History of polyglottism and diglossia in Deaf community
  • Reconstructing early ASL grammar
  • From syntax to bound morphology
  • Development of bound morphology
  • The current state of sign language structure, learning and change

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

Ted Supalla
Professor of Neurology, Linguistics, and Psychology
Georgetown University

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Georgetown University

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