The Case for Grammar, Order, and Position in ASL: A Reply to Bouchard and Dubuisson.

Kegl, Judy; And Others

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Publication Date: 1996

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The Case for Grammar, Order, and Position in ASL: A Reply to Bouchard and Dubuisson.

Kegl, Judy; And Others

Sign Language Studies, n90 p1-23 Spr 1996

Replies to issues raised by Bouchard and Dubuisson (B&D) (1995) about American Sign Language (ASL), refuting B&D's assertion that visual-gestural languages are not bound by any universal constraints on word order and reaffirming that ASL is a highly configurational language with a basic underlying syntactic structure as well as an extensive distribution of nonmanual grammatical markings. (16 references) (K)

Descriptors: American Sign Language, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Syntax, Word Order

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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