The emergence of systematic argument distinctions in artificial sign languages

Word order is a key property by which languages indicate the relationship between a predicate and its arguments. However, sign languages use a number of other modality-specific tools in addition to word order such as spatial agreement, which has been likened to verbal agreement in spoken languages,...

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Main Authors: Culbertson, J. (Author), Kirby, S. (Author), Motamedi, Y. (Author), Schouwstra, M. (Author), Smith, K. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2021
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