Figure–Ground Spatial Relationships in Finnish Sign Language Discourse
This study is about expressing spatial relationships between Figure and Ground in Finnish Sign Language discourse and shows that the variation in this expression is primarily discourse dependent. The main findings are, first, that Ground mainly precedes Figure whether the Figure is new or a known re...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0041 |