1 Grammaticalization of intonation in Israeli Sign Language: From information structure to relative clause relations By: Svetlana Dachkovsky Supervised by: Professor Wendy Sandler A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE "DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY" University of Haifa Faculty of Humanities Department of English Language and Literature January, 2018 Recommended by: ___________________ (Supervisor) Approved by: (Chairperson of PhD Committee) Date: Date: