Events of motion and causation in Hong Kong Sign Language

Lingua

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1216-1257

  Tang, Gladys ^a   Yang, Gu ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Classifier predicates; Events of causation; Events of motion; Signed language

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947270610     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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