@article{855733,
      recid = {855733},
      author = {Lackner, Andrea,},
      title = {Functions of head and body movements in Austrian sign  language /},
      pages = {1 online resource (286 pages).},
      abstract = {"Research on nonmanual elements or nonmanuals in sign  languages has focused on both the possible functions and  the occurrence (frequency and form) of these elements in  recent years. As a matter of fact, research on nonmanuals  is still a quite uncharted territory in Austrian Sign  Language (OGS) today, which has also initiated the study  given. In order to identify head and body movements in OGS,  these nonmanuals were determined and analyzed functionally  via a new user-oriented methodology. Getting feedback of  multiple native signers was a main part of this method.  Accordingly, you will find the findings of this study in  this volume: various functions such as negation, assertion,  interrogativity, conditionality, and many more can be  expressed nonmanually. Brand new insights into sign  language research are given, as well as astonishing  results: even (epistemic) modality can be expressed by  particular head and body movements"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/855733},
}