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Article published In: Sign Language & Linguistics
Vol. 24:2 (2021) ► pp.295–305

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Pragmatic, morpho-syntactic and prosodic features in sentence topic types in Italian Sign Language (LIS)

 | Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Published online: 2 April 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00060.cal
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 1.Prosodic features of sentence topic types in LIS
  • 2.Syntactic properties of sentence topics in LIS
  • 3.Pragmatic issues: Referential expressions, referential hierarchy, and topicality in LIS
  • References
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