American Sign Language Linguistics

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American Sign Language Linguistics presents the phonetics, morphology, semantics, and syntax of American Sign Language in contrast to English. Topics include origins of American Sign Language, basic linguistic terminology of both languages, common sentence types in both language, and features unique to American Sign Language such as spatialization, directionality, role shifting, classifiers, fingerspelled loan signs, multiple methods of negation, sign variation, and non-manual features.