Cross-linguistic comparison of interrogatives in Croatian, Austrian, and American Sign Languages

Visible Variation: Comparative Studies on Sign Language Structure

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 207-244

  Šarac, Ninoslava ^a   Schalber, Katharina ^b   Alibašić, Tamara ^a   Wilbur, Ronnie B ^c  

^a Linguistics Program ^*  (Croatia)

^b NONE   (Austria)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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