The Gestural Expression of Modality in ASL

Wilcox, Sherman; Wilcox, Phyllis Perrin

doi:10.1075/tsl.32.07wil

In:Modality in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman
[Typological Studies in Language 32] 1995
► pp. 135–162

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The Gestural Expression of Modality in ASL

Sherman Wilcox

Phyllis Perrin Wilcox

Published online: 21 August 1995

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.32.07wil

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