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Peer reviewedMcIntire, Marina L. – Sign Language Studies, 1982
Analysis of constituent order in performance of native signers suggests that the notions of subject and object are less helpful for understanding the grammar than are "topic" and "comment," especially when the latter notions are related to old and new information and the semantic logic of location. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, North American English, Semantics
