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
Hauptverfasser: Kegl, Judy, Neidle, Carol, MacLaughlin, Dawn, Hoza, Jack, Bahan, Benjamin
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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)
ISSN:0302-1475
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