The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical StructureRecent research on the syntax of signed language has revealed that, apart from some modality-specific differences, signed languages are organized according to the same underlying principles as spoken languages. This book addresses the organization and distribution of functional categories in American Sign Language (ASL), focusing on tense, agreement and wh-constructions. |
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Aarons ABKN adverbials agreement features American Sign Language analysis analyzed articulation associated Bahan base-generated topics c-command domain chapter Chomsky claim co-occur coarticulated code-switching deaf children definite determiner phrases discussed distribution of nonmanual elicitation English example expression of agreement eye gaze functional projections FUTUREtns gloss grammaticality judgments handshape head nod head tilt indefinite determiner involving IXdet JOHN BUY JOHN LOVE MARY Judy Kegl leftward lexical tense markers licensing Lillo-Martin 1997 linguistic LOVE JOHN MacLaughlin manual material manual sign Mary modal movement native signers Neidle nonmanual agreement markings nonmanual expressions nonmanual markings nonmanual syntactic markings nonmanual wh-marking noun phrase null arguments object agreement occur optional spread overt Padden Petronio and Lillo-Martin POSS postnominal pronominal pronouns proposed right dislocation sentence-final sentences Spec spoken language spread structure syntactic agreement syntactic features tion wh feature wh-movement wh-phrase wh-questions wh-sign wh-topics Wilbur word order
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