The emergence of systematic argument distinctions in artificial sign languages
Word order is a key property by which languages indicate the relationship between a predicate and its arguments. However, sign languages use a number of other modality-specific tools in addition to word order such as spatial agreement, which has been likened to verbal agreement in spoken languages,...
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Oxford University Press
2021
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