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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. 269–275
Book review

Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach & Bencie Woll (eds.). Sign Language – An International Handbook (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science – HSK 37). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. € 299.00xii + 1126 pp. ISBN 978-3110204216

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Published online: 12 December 2013
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