Verbal and Signed Languages:Comparing Structures, Constructs and Methodologies (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 36)
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Explores how much of knowledge based on research on spoken languagesneeds to be refined in the light of the growing field of sign linguistics.This book focuses on topics: linearity and arbitrariness principles anddefinition of units and levels of analysis, expression of grammaticalcategories, semantic relations, and cohesion mechanisms.