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Peer reviewedPetronio, Karen; Lillo-Martin, Diane – Language, 1997
Argues that WH-Movement in American Sign Language (ASL) is a leftward specifier of CP. Also argues that the occurrence of rightward WH-elements derives from independently motivated syntactic and discourse factors leading to the appearance of WH-elements in a sentence- or discourse-final positions--not by rightward WH-movement. This analysis…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Context Clues, Deafness, Discourse Analysis
