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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)
