Linguistics of American Sign Language: An Introduction

by Clayton; Lucas Valli, Ceil Lucas

New 4th Edition completely revised and updated with new DVD now available; ISBN 1-56368-283-4

Genres: Linguistics, Language, Nonfiction, Textbooks, School

446 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1995

Reviews

[Linda]

Not quite what I was expecting, but I still learned a lot. I wanted to fill in gaps of my knowledge of ASL (and sign languages in general), so this seemed like a good start. I was expecting it to be an in-depth study of ASL, but it's really an intro to linguistics textbook that just happens to use ASL (and English) for the examples. I ended up skimming a lot of the content for this reason and just focusing on the examples.

Unusually, about half of this book is a standard textbook and the other half is a series of supplemental readings. There's also a very useful DVD with video examples. As someone already well-informed in linguistics, the supplemental readings were more interesting to me than the textbook itself.

[Rosie]

Extremely well written and easy to understand. The author certainly understood the topic and I look forward to reading more in the series. Many thanks from a Deaf/blind Gubbi Gubbi lass living in Finland.

[Amber]

I am a huge linguistics and etymology nerd, so despite this being a textbook I read during college I actually had a great time.

[Jordan Dale]

Shoutout structures of ASL for this one ‼️

[Bee]

This is an excellent resource for any ling people interested in manual language. It serves partly as an introduction and partly as an anthology of relevant papers on a wide variety of linguistic subfields relating to ASL

[Sandra]

ASL morphology is fascinating!

[Khalidimrozmgmail.Com]

how linguistics give arguments on the origin of language and its usage.