THE CASE FOR GRAMMAR, ORDER AND POSITION IN ASL: A REPLY TO BOUCHARD AND DUBUISSON
Replies to issues raised by Bouchard and Dubuisson (B&D) (1995) about American Sign Language (ASL), refuting B&D's assertion that visual-gestural languages are not bound by any universal constraints on word order and reaffirming that ASL is a highly configurational language with a basic...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Sign language studies 1996-04 (90), p.1-23 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Replies to issues raised by Bouchard and Dubuisson (B&D) (1995) about American Sign Language (ASL), refuting B&D's assertion that visual-gestural languages are not bound by any universal constraints on word order and reaffirming that ASL is a highly configurational language with a basic underlying syntactic structure as well as an extensive distribution of nonmanual grammatical markings. (16 references) (K) |
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ISSN: | 0302-1475 1533-6263 |