Achieving spatial coherence in German Sign Language narratives: The use of classifiers and perspective

Lingua

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1315-1338

  Perniss, Pamela M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Classifiers; Efficiency constraint; Informativeness constraint; Perspective; Simultaneity; Spatial coherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947193692     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2005.06.013     Document Type: Article

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