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Abstract published In: Sign Language & Linguistics
Vol. 24:1 (2021) ► pp.132–141

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Iconicity as a mediator between verb semantics and morphosyntactic structure

A corpus-based study on verbs in German Sign Language

 | Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS-ENS-EHESS | PSL
Published online: 8 December 2020
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Article outline
  • Verb types and semantic maps
  • Verb agreement and subject drop
  • Formal analyses
  • References
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