As the only book of its kind, this book describes the social and historical background of this signed language and places Irish Sign Language in a world context. The Signs of Ireland corpus is used to introduce phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.It also examines the key influenc
Language and Time: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 286
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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