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Contents Editorial Advisory Board, vi Acknowledgments, vii Editor’s Note, ix Chapter 1 Introduction, 1 Chapter 2 Foundational Concepts, 9 Chapter 3 Features Relevant to Defocusing Agents in ASL, 25 Chapter 4 Defocused Agents in ASL Utterances, 35 Chapter 5 ASL Structures Used to Express Reduced Agent Focus, 56 Chapter 6 Agent Focus in ASL Texts, 77 Chapter 7 Agent Focus in ASL-to-English Translation, 110 Chapter 8 Conclusion, 120 References, 127 Index, 131 Rankin_FM_Pgs i-x.indd 5 10/18/2013 9:38:26 AM ...

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