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Neidle, Carol; Lee, Robert G.; McLaughlin, Dawn; Bahan, Benjamin; Kegl, Judy – Language, 1998
Argues that a 1997 study of WH-movement in American Sign Language (ASL) proposing leftward syntactic movement uses incorrect interpretations of the data and can not account for the facts of the language. A previously-proposed position that ASL WH-phrases move rightward, and that universal grammar must allow the option of rightward movement, is…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research