Another way to mark syntactic dependencies: The case for right-peripheral specifiers in sign languages

Language

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 278-320

  Carlo, Cecchetto ^a   Geraci, Carlo ^a   Zucchi, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Italian Sign Language (LIS); Negation; Prosodic marking of syntactic dependencies; Sign language; Specifiers; WH questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649087635     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.0.0114     Document Type: Article

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