CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
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Chapter I-What is a "Language"?
Chapter II-What is American Sign Language?
Chapter III-English in the Deaf Community
Chapter IV-Sign Fonnation and Variation
Chapter V-Selected Sign Types
Chapter VI-Sentence Types
Chapter VII-Time
Chapter VIII-Pronominalization
Chapter IX-Subjects and Objects
Chapter X-Classifiers
Chapter XI-Locatives
Chapter XII-Pluralization
Chapter XlII-Temporal Aspect
Chapter XIV-Distributional Aspect
Sign Language Bibliography
Glossary
Index