Interrogative structures in Croatian Sign Language: Polar and content questions

Sign Language and Linguistics (Online)

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 151-167

  Kuhn, Ninoslava Šarac ^a   Wilbur, Ronnie B ^a  

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Author keywords

Content questions; Croatian Sign Language (HZJ); Interrogatives; Nonmanual characteristics; Polar questions; Sign language

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249153672     PISSN: 13879316     EISSN: 1569996X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/sll.9.1-2.09kuh     Document Type: Article

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