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Chafe’s Generative Semantics and the Structure of American Sign Language
- Sign Language Studies
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 39, Summer 1983
- pp. 169-187
- 10.1353/sls.1983.0010
- Article
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Abstract
The generative semantics of Chafe’s Meaning and the Structure of Language uses spoken language for illustration and example, but it can be turned to good account both to combat the error of thinking that sign languages merely represent spoken languages in visible form and to explain various parts of the grammar of American Sign Language.
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