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Sign Language Syntax from a Formal Perspective: Selected Papers from the 2012 Warsaw FEAST
Edited by Paweł Rutkowski
[Sign Language & Linguistics 16:2] 2013
► pp. 259–268
Book review

Ulrike Zeshan & Connie de Vos (eds.). Sign Languages in Village Communities: Anthropological and Linguistic Insights. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2012. € 99.95 / $ 140.00vii + 413 pp. ISBN 978-1614512035

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Published online: 12 December 2013
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