ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ
ΥΠΟΥΡΓΕΙΟ ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ

ABSTRACT
The Traditional Type Grammar for Cyprus Sign Language (CSL) is the first among three educational products in DVD as well as in conventional book form with paedagogic expedience and utility. These products have been the goal of an official linguistic project on CSL documentation; the other two products being the CSL Conceptual Lexicon and the CSL Communicative Grammar.

The three-year-project (2007-2010) on CSL documentation being implemented by the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture with collaboration of the Cyprus School for the Deaf and the Cyprus Federation of the Deaf, pertaining to Law 66(I)2006 regarding official recognition of CSL, aims to a systematic and complete documentation of CSL lexicon and grammar by means of theoretical and applied linguistics.

CSL documentation meets the following standards:

1.Reliable reference basis for promoting the instrumental (communicative- functional) as well as the symbolic (sociocultural) value of CSL;

2.Reliable and effective background for educating the Deaf in Cyprus through bilingual education approach (via CSL & Greek);

3.Basis for systematic and methodic teaching and learning of CSL; and

4.Reliable reference for training interpreters of CSL/Greek as well as CSL trainers for adults.

Traditional type grammar for CSL is an educational tool describing and explaining the CSL structure and function in a systematic, brief and clear pattern. It is designed chiefly for teachers and other professionals participating in the education of the Deaf in Cyprus. The traditional character has to do with the four conventional chapters that traditionally shape the framework of such works: cherology (respective to phonology), typology, etymology and syntax.

The first chapter (cherology) deals with the constitutive elements of CSL words. It begins with parameters, i.e. handshape, orientation, location and movement, it goes on with syllables and two-handed CSL words, and it closes with the nonmanual elements.

The second chapter (typology) deals with word changes in CSL. It begins with classification of CSL words in parts of manual speech, it goes on with non-inflectional words, then with inflectional words with stable root, and it closes with inflectional words with variable root.

The third chapter (etymology) deals with CSL word formation. It begins with word origin, it goes on with word derivation and it closes with word composition.

The fourth chapter (syntax) deals with CSL sentence structure and function. In fact, cherology, typology and etymology implications are fully implemented in syntax. It begins with simple CSL sentences, presenting the sentence terms and classifying simple CSL sentences in categories, it goes on with complex sentences, then it presents issues on sentence modulation according to aktionsart, aspect, tense and mood, and it closes with sentence binding in paratactic and hypotactic manner.
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