Hand, head, and face: Negative constructions in sign languages

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-58

  Zeshan, Ulrike ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affixation; Clause type; Cliticisation; Iconicity; Negation; Nonmanual negation; Scope; Sign language; Suppletion; Word sign order

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444565884     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lity.2004.003     Document Type: Review

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