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Wilbur, Ronnie B.; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1985
Presents a list of classifiers in American Sign Language and describes a study of their semantic characteristics. Classifiers are defined as certain hand shapes in particular orientations that stand for certain semantic features of noun arguments and which may substitute for particular nouns in various semantic environments, thereby functioning as…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Classification, Deafness, Language Research