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Article published In: Sign Language & Linguistics
Vol. 17:1 (2014) ► pp.109–118

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There once was a verb

The predicative core of possessive and nominalization structures in American Sign Language

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Published online: 6 June 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.17.1.06abn
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