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Preface to the Third Edition | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Basic Concepts | |
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Basic Concepts | |
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Phonology | |
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Signs Have Parts | |
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The Stokoe System | |
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The Concept of Sequentiality in the Description of Signs | |
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The Movement-Hold Model | |
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Phonological Processes | |
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Summary | |
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Morphology | |
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Phonology vs. Morphology | |
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Deriving Nouns from Verbs in ASL | |
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Compounds | |
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Lexicalized Fingerspelling and Loan Signs | |
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Numeral Incorporation | |
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The Function of Space in ASL | |
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Classifier Predicates and Locative Verbs | |
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Classifier Predicates and Signer Perspective | |
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Subject-Object Agreement | |
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Pronouns and Determiners | |
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Temporal Aspect | |
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Derivational and Inflectional Morphology | |
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Time in ASL | |
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Syntax | |
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Definitions | |
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Simple Sentences with Plain Verbs | |
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Simple Sentences with Agreement Verbs | |
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Basic Sentence Types | |
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Semantics | |
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The Meaning of Individual Signs | |
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The Meaning of Sentences | |
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Language in Use | |
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Variation and Historical Change | |
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ASL Discourse | |
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Bilingualism and Language Contact | |
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Language as Art | |
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Supplemental Readings | |
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Analyzing Signs | |
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Introduction: What Do You Know When You Know a Language | |
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Introduction: Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Rules of Grammar | |
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Introduction: Arbitrariness in Language | |
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Signs Have Parts: A Simple Idea | |
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Introduction from A Dictionary of American Sign Language | |
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Phonetics: The Sounds of Speech | |
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Phonology: The Value of Sounds: Phonemes | |
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American Sign Language: The Phonological Base | |
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Morphology: The Minimal Units of Meaning: Morphemes | |
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Morphology: The Hierarchical Structure of Words | |
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Morphology: Word Formation Processes | |
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The Confluence of Space and Language in Signed Languages | |
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A Class of Determiners in ASL | |
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Syntax: Sentences and Their Structure | |
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Syntax: The Study of Sentence Structure | |
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Semantics: The Study of Meaning | |
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Regional Variation: The Origin of American Dialects | |
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Regional Variation: Variation at Different Levels | |
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Analyzing Variation in Sign Languages: Theoretical and Methodological Issues | |
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Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Black Deaf Community | |
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Toward a Description of Register Variation in American Sign Language | |
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Features of Discourse in an American Sign Language Lecture | |
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Language Contact in the American Deaf Community | |
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