Grammaticalization of auxiliaries in sign languages

Visible Variation: Comparative Studies on Sign Language Structure

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 303-339

  Steinbach, Markus ^a   Pfau, Roland ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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