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Publication details [#3531]

Friedman, Lynn A. 1976. The manifestation of subject, object, and topic in the American Sign Language. In Li, Charles N., ed. Subject and topic. Academic Press. pp. 125–148.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

object | sign language | subject | topic | word order

Annotation

F. attempts to refute some claims with respect to word order in ASL (= American Sign Language), to describe the discourse situation and its relation to the question of word order, and to relate this description to the nature of topic in ASL.