Interrogative and Negative Constructions in Sign Language

THE FIRST VOLUME IN THE SIGN LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY SERIES includes data on interrogative and negative constructions from 35 sign languages around the world. In a truly pioneering undertaking, the editor and the contributors from eight different countries open up to the reader the universe of typological...

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Main Author: Zeshan, Ulrike (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Nijmegen Ishara Press 2006
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653 |a Affirmation and negation 
653 |a American Sign Language 
653 |a Deaf culture 
653 |a Indo-Pakistani Sign Language 
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653 |a Linguistic typology