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Peer reviewedZeshan, Ulrike – Sign Language Studies, 2003
Examines the variety of sign language used in Southern and central Pakistan and Northwestern India, including its grammatical profile, word classes, the relationship between word class and functional slot, the marking of basic syntactic relations, shifters, number systems, types of possession, negation, questions, subordinate clauses, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Typology, Negative Forms (Language)
Peer reviewedWoodward, James C. – Sign Language Studies, 1993
Recent research has shown that sign language varieties in India and Pakistan are related. This report examines the possible relationship of sign language varieties in India and Pakistan to those in Nepal by analyzing comparative lexical data from sign language varieties in the three countries. (10 references) (VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Language Variation
Peer reviewedZeshan, Ulrike – Sign Language Studies, 1996
Presents data on Pakistan Sign Language collected during videotaped interviews with informants. Questions whether nonmanual components of a sign should be included among the language parameters and considered equivalent to the phonemes of spoken languages. (seven references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Interviews
