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Pious pro-family rhetoric postures and paradoxes in philosophical perspective / by Newman, Jay, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The pro-family crusade in cultural context -- Specimens of conservative pro-family rhetoric -- Religion and family values in the culture war -- Progressivist alternatives and responses -- Theological misgivings about pious pro-family rhetoric -- Concerns about authenticity -- Pious pro-family rhetoric and the sign language of the emotions.…”
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The expression of modality

Table of Contents: “…Modality: overview and linguistic issues / Jan Nuyts -- Formal approaches to modality / Cleo Condoravdi -- Typological approaches to modality / Ferdinand de Haan -- Historical aspects of modality / Elizabeth Traugott -- Acquisition of modality / Soonja Choi -- Modality in zapotec / Pamela Munro -- Modality in sign language / Sherman Wilcox & Barbara Shaffer -- New directions / William Frawley.…”
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The expression of modality

Table of Contents: “…Modality: overview and linguistic issues / Jan Nuyts -- Formal approaches to modality / Cleo Condoravdi -- Typological approaches to modality / Ferdinand de Haan -- Historical aspects of modality / Elizabeth Traugott -- Acquisition of modality / Soonja Choi -- Modality in zapotec / Pamela Munro -- Modality in sign language / Sherman Wilcox & Barbara Shaffer -- New directions / William Frawley.…”
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Deaf liberation theology by Lewis, Hannah, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Framework and methodology -- DEAF-WORLD : being deaf in the twenty-first century -- DEAF-CHURCH : a history of deaf people and the church -- Deaf people constructed in theology -- Deaf people constructed in the church as an organization -- DEAF-WORLD, sign language and the Bible -- Can Jesus sign? : who is Jesus Christ for deaf people today? …”
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Deaf liberation theology by Lewis, Hannah, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Framework and methodology -- DEAF-WORLD : being deaf in the twenty-first century -- DEAF-CHURCH : a history of deaf people and the church -- Deaf people constructed in theology -- Deaf people constructed in the church as an organization -- DEAF-WORLD, sign language and the Bible -- Can Jesus sign? : who is Jesus Christ for deaf people today? …”
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Arguments and agreement

Table of Contents: “…The role of agreement in the expression of arguments / Peter Ackema, Patrick Brandt, Maaike Schoorlemmer, and Fred Weerman -- Economy, agreement, and the representation of null arguments / Margaret Speas -- Deriving the difference between full and partial pro-drop / Olaf Koeneman -- Agreement, pro, and imperatives / Hans Bennis -- Uniform and non-uniform aspects of pro-drop languages / Artemis Alexiadou -- Asymmetrical pro-drop in northern Italian dialects / Cecilia Poletto -- Agreement phenomena in sign language of the Netherlands / Inge Zwitserlood and Ingeborg van Gijn -- 'Arbitrary' pro and the theory of pro-drop / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr -- The pronominal argument parameter / Eloise Jelinek -- On zero agreement and polysynthesis / Mark C. …”
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Arguments and agreement

Table of Contents: “…The role of agreement in the expression of arguments / Peter Ackema, Patrick Brandt, Maaike Schoorlemmer, and Fred Weerman -- Economy, agreement, and the representation of null arguments / Margaret Speas -- Deriving the difference between full and partial pro-drop / Olaf Koeneman -- Agreement, pro, and imperatives / Hans Bennis -- Uniform and non-uniform aspects of pro-drop languages / Artemis Alexiadou -- Asymmetrical pro-drop in northern Italian dialects / Cecilia Poletto -- Agreement phenomena in sign language of the Netherlands / Inge Zwitserlood and Ingeborg van Gijn -- 'Arbitrary' pro and the theory of pro-drop / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr -- The pronominal argument parameter / Eloise Jelinek -- On zero agreement and polysynthesis / Mark C. …”
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Continuum companion to phonology

Table of Contents: “…Second Language Phonology / Heidi Altman & Barış Kabak -- 12. Sign Language Phonology / Chloe Marshall -- 13. Phonological Disorders / Dirk den Ouden -- New Directions: 14. …”
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Continuum companion to phonology

Table of Contents: “…Second Language Phonology / Heidi Altman & Barış Kabak -- 12. Sign Language Phonology / Chloe Marshall -- 13. Phonological Disorders / Dirk den Ouden -- New Directions: 14. …”
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Crosslinguistic studies on noun phrase structure and reference /

Table of Contents: “…Information structure and (in)definiteness / Nomi Erteschik-Shir -- On number and numberlessness in languages with and without articles / Asya Pereltsvaig -- The cognitive basis of the mass-count distinction : evidence from bare nouns / Edit Doron and Ana Muller -- The Turkish NP / Zeljko Boskovic and Serkan Sener -- The morphology, syntax and semantics of definite determiners in Swiss German / Rebekka Studler -- Reduced definite articles with restrictive relative clauses / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr -- When determiners abound : implications for the encoding of definiteness / Marika Lekakou and Kriszta Szendroi -- The semantics and syntax of Japanese adnominal demonstratives / Makoto Kaneko -- From noun to name : on definiteness marking in modern Martinike / Anne Zribi-Hertz and Loic Jean-Louis -- Reference resolution in French sign language : the effects of the visuo-gestual modality / Brigitte Garcia and Marie-Anne Sallandre -- When articles have different meanings : acquiring the expression of genericity in English and Brazilian Portuguese / Tania Ionin, Elaine Grolla, Silvina Montrul and Helade Santos.…”
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Crosslinguistic studies on noun phrase structure and reference /

Table of Contents: “…Information structure and (in)definiteness / Nomi Erteschik-Shir -- On number and numberlessness in languages with and without articles / Asya Pereltsvaig -- The cognitive basis of the mass-count distinction : evidence from bare nouns / Edit Doron and Ana Muller -- The Turkish NP / Zeljko Boskovic and Serkan Sener -- The morphology, syntax and semantics of definite determiners in Swiss German / Rebekka Studler -- Reduced definite articles with restrictive relative clauses / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr -- When determiners abound : implications for the encoding of definiteness / Marika Lekakou and Kriszta Szendroi -- The semantics and syntax of Japanese adnominal demonstratives / Makoto Kaneko -- From noun to name : on definiteness marking in modern Martinike / Anne Zribi-Hertz and Loic Jean-Louis -- Reference resolution in French sign language : the effects of the visuo-gestual modality / Brigitte Garcia and Marie-Anne Sallandre -- When articles have different meanings : acquiring the expression of genericity in English and Brazilian Portuguese / Tania Ionin, Elaine Grolla, Silvina Montrul and Helade Santos.…”
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Talking the walk & walking the talk : a rhetoric of rhythm / by Shell, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Dorothy Miles' Body-Sign Language in Gestures [1976] -- CHAPTER EIGHT: POSTAMBLE & EPILOGUE -- 1. …”
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Talking the walk & walking the talk : a rhetoric of rhythm / by Shell, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Dorothy Miles' Body-Sign Language in Gestures [1976] -- CHAPTER EIGHT: POSTAMBLE & EPILOGUE -- 1. …”
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Parts of speech empirical and theoretical advances /

Table of Contents: “…Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs / Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau -- Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications / Waldemar Schwager and Ulrike Zeshan -- Roots, stems and word classes / Christian Lehmann -- Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech: The case of Late Archaic Chinese / Walter Bisang -- Covert word classes: Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi / Mark Donohue -- Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan / Yulia Koloskova and Toshio Ohori -- The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian / David Gil -- Possible phonological cues in categorial acquisition Evidence from adult categorization /Jan Don and Marian Erkelens -- Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability / Lynn Nichols -- Degree words, intensification, and word class distinctions in Romance languages / Ventura Salazar-García -- On flexible and rigid nouns / Jan Rijkhoff.…”
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Parts of speech empirical and theoretical advances /

Table of Contents: “…Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs / Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau -- Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications / Waldemar Schwager and Ulrike Zeshan -- Roots, stems and word classes / Christian Lehmann -- Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech: The case of Late Archaic Chinese / Walter Bisang -- Covert word classes: Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi / Mark Donohue -- Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan / Yulia Koloskova and Toshio Ohori -- The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian / David Gil -- Possible phonological cues in categorial acquisition Evidence from adult categorization /Jan Don and Marian Erkelens -- Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability / Lynn Nichols -- Degree words, intensification, and word class distinctions in Romance languages / Ventura Salazar-García -- On flexible and rigid nouns / Jan Rijkhoff.…”
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An introduction to language policy theory and method /

Table of Contents: “…Fishman -- Language policy and sign languages / Timothy Reagan -- Language policy and linguistic imperialism / Robert Phillipson.…”
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An introduction to language policy theory and method /

Table of Contents: “…Fishman -- Language policy and sign languages / Timothy Reagan -- Language policy and linguistic imperialism / Robert Phillipson.…”
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The critical link 2 interpreters in the community : selected papers from the Second International Conference on Interpreting in Legal, Health and Social Service Settings, Vancouver...

Table of Contents: “…. -- Current Trends and Future Prospects191 -- Mabel Erasmus -- Role of the Interpreter in the Healing of a Nation: -- An Emotional View207 -- Chriss Wiegand -- Sign Language Interpreters and Access for Deaf Students -- to University Curricula: the Ideal and the Reality219 -- Frank Harrington -- Community Interpreters at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Plus ca change? …”
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The critical link 2 interpreters in the community : selected papers from the Second International Conference on Interpreting in Legal, Health and Social Service Settings, Vancouver...

Table of Contents: “…. -- Current Trends and Future Prospects191 -- Mabel Erasmus -- Role of the Interpreter in the Healing of a Nation: -- An Emotional View207 -- Chriss Wiegand -- Sign Language Interpreters and Access for Deaf Students -- to University Curricula: the Ideal and the Reality219 -- Frank Harrington -- Community Interpreters at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Plus ca change? …”
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