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Sign Language & Linguistics
Vol. 22:2 (2019) ► pp.275–281
Dissertation abstracts

Verb agreement in Brazilian Sign Language

Morphophonology, syntax & semantics

| Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Article outline
  • Morphophonology: Co-localization as agreement marker
  • Syntax: The syntactic derivation of agreement
  • Semantics: Event properties and the layering of visual information in the verb structure
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 10 February 2020
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