Sign languages are of great interest to linguists, because while they are the product of the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that o

Sign languages are of great interest to linguists, because while they are the product of the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that o

Sign languages are of great interest to linguists because, while they are produced by the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that of s

Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, re

Recent research on the syntax of signed language has revealed that, apart from some modality-specific differences, signed languages are organized according to t