The expression of modal meaning in German Sign Language and Irish Sign Language

Visible Variation: Comparative Studies on Sign Language Structure

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 245-278

  Herrmann, Annika ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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