On the syntax of negation and modals in Catalan Sign Language and German Sign Language

Visible Variation: Comparative Studies on Sign Language Structure

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 129-161

  Pfau, Roland ^a   Quer, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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