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Download full textWoodward, James; De Santis, Susan – 1976
This paper examines negative incorporation in various lects of two historically related sign languages, French Sign Language and American Sign Language. Negative incorporation not only offers interesting insights into the structure of French and American Sign Language, but also into the descriptive and explanatory power of variation theory. By…
Descriptors: Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Females
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This volume contains a selection of 27 papers presented at the Sixth Conference on African Linguistics. The papers cover a very wide range of topics, and are organized into three sections: (1) Historical and Comparative Studies; (2) Phonology; and (3) Syntax. The conference program, the program of the symposium on African language, culture and…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bantu Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles
