Headings from Taylor 1996

Origin

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Extent of use

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Nature of signs

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Mechanics of sign production

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Language structure

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Lexicon

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Dialects

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Stylistic differences

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See also

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References

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  • Clark, William Philo. 1885. Indian Sign language. Philadelphia: L.R. Hammersly.
  • Farnell, Brenda. 1995. Do you see what I mean? Plains Indian sign talk and the embodiment of action. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. ISBN
  • Farnell, Brenda. 1994. "Ethnographics and the moving body." Man: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 29(4): 929-974.
  • Gordon Jr., Raymond. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th edition. Ethnologue entry for Plains Indian Sign Language Online entry for Plains Indian Sign Language retrieved April 13, 2009. Dallas: SIL International. ISBN 978-1-55671-159-6
  • Mallery, Garrick. 1881. Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes. First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, pp. 263-552. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  • Taylor, Alan R. 1996. "The Plains Indian Sign Language." Wurm, Stephen, Peter Muhlhausler, Darrell Tyron, eds., Atlas of languages of intercultural communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas, 1241-1252. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3110134179
  • Taylor, Alan. 1996. "Nonspeech communication systems." Ives Goddard, ed., The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 17. Languages, 275-289. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-048774-9
  • Taylor, Alan. 1981. "Indian lingua francas." Charles Ferguson and Shirley Brice Heath, eds., Language in the USA, pp. 175-195. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-29834-2
  • Taylor, Alan. 1975. "Nonverbal communication systems in Native North America." Semiotica 13: 329-374.
  • Tomkins, William. 1969. Indian sign language. [Republication of "Universal Indian Sign Language of the Plains Indians of North America" 5th ed. 1931]. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486220291
  • Umiker-Sebeok, D. Jean and Thomas Sebeok. 1978. Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia. Volume 1. North America: Classic comparative perspectives.--. New York: Plenum Press. ISBN 0306310732
  • Umiker-Sebeok, D. Jean and Thomas Sebeok. 1978. Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia. Volume 2. The Americas and Australia. New York: Plenum Press. ISBN 0306310813
  • West, Lamont. 1960. The Sign Language: An Analysis. Two volumes. PhD dissertation. Indiana University.

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