Indicating verbs in British Sign Language favour motivated use of space

Sign languages have traditionally been described as having a distinction between (1) arbitrary (referential or syntactic) space, considered to be a purely grammatical use of space in which locations arbitrarily represent concrete or abstract subject and/or object arguments using pronouns or indicati...

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Main Authors: Cormier Kearsy, Fenlon Jordan, Schembri Adam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2015-11-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli.2014.1.issue-1/opli-2015-0025/opli-2015-0025.xml?format=INT