Space rotation, perspective shift, and verb morphology in ASL

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-174

  Janzen, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ASL; Mental rotation; Morphology; Perspective marking; Perspective shift; Space

Indexed keywords

EID: 15244350594     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2004.006     Document Type: Article

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