Semantic Fields in Sign Languages: Colour, Kins. Zeshan, Sagara<|

Semantic Fields in Sign LanguagesColour, Kinship and Quantification\nAuthor(s): Ulrike Zeshan, Keiko Sagara\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: De Gruyter, United States\nImprint: De Gruyter Mouton\nISBN-13: 9781501511486, 978-1501511486\nSynopsis\nTypological 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 wit.