Question and negation in Israeli Sign Language

Sign Language and Linguistics (Online)

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 97-124

  Meir, Irit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Interrogative constructions; Israeli Sign Language; Mouthing; Negation; Nonmanual markers; Suffixation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248699366     PISSN: 13879316     EISSN: 1569996X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/sll.7.2.03mei     Document Type: Article

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