Cardinal numerals in rural sign languages: Approaching cross-modal typology

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 357-396

  Zeshan, Ulrike ^a   Delgado, Cesar Ernesto Escobedo ^a   Dikyuva, Hasan ^a   Panda, Sibaji ^a   De Vos, Connie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardinal numerals; Morphology; Numeral bases; Numerals; Rural sign languages; Sign languages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899083496     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2013-0019     Document Type: Article

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