Warum braucht die Deutsche Gebärdensprache kein Passiv? Verfahren der Markierung semantischer Rollen in der DGS: [Why can German Sign Language (DGS) do without a passive construction? Ways of marking semantic roles in DGS]

Hansen, Martje

doi:10.1075/sll.10.2.09han

Review published In: Identifying sentences in signed languages
Edited by Onno A. Crasborn
[Sign Language & Linguistics 10:2] 2007
► pp. 213–222

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Warum braucht die Deutsche Gebärdensprache kein Passiv? Verfahren der Markierung semantischer Rollen in der DGS

[Why can German Sign Language (DGS) do without a passive construction? Ways of marking semantic roles in DGS]

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Martje Hansen | University of Applied Sciences, Magdeburg-Stendal (Germany)

Published online: 1 October 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.10.2.09han

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