Universal Grammar and American Sign Language: Setting the Null Argument Parameters

by Diane C. Martin and Diane C. Lillo-Martin

Book Overview

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE American Sign Language (ASL) is the visual-gestural language used by most of the deaf community in the United States and parts of Canada. On the surface, this language (as all signed languages) seems radically different from the spoken languages which have been used to formulate theories of linguistic princi- ples and parameters. However, the position taken in this book is that when the surface effects of modality are stripped...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792314190
• ISBN13: 9780792314196
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"