Linguists have long known that sign languages are as grammatically and logically sophisticated as spoken languages—and also make greater use of “iconicity,” the property by which some words refer to ...

Designed for students who have no previous knowledge of ASL. Students will learn fingerspelling, words, facial expressions, and classifiers to be able to communicate at a basic level with other ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A number of quite closely related Yi branch Tibeto-Burman languages of southwestern China and adjacent Southeast Asia have specific collective ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In ASL spatial classifier expressions, the location of the hands in signing space depicts the relative position of described objects. When ...