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Peer reviewedPadden, Carol – Sign Language Studies, 1981
Uses data from American Sign Language complement structures to show that a syntactic theory is needed to account for these in a formal way. Constraints on the forms of these structures are discussed in terms of syntactic constraints, rather than pragmatic or functional conditions. (Author/AMH)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Research, Morphology (Languages)
Direct linkMassone, Maria Ignacia; Curiel, Monica – Sign Language Studies, 2004
This article focuses on word order - the order of constituents in the sentence - as one way in which languages establish the relationship between a verb and its arguments. The spoken languages of the world have been classified into three, major word-order types: SVO, VSO, and SOV. Greenberg' work (1963) on language typology has been a stimulus to…
Descriptors: Semantics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Sentence Structure, Language Research
