Example sentences from Neidle and MacLaughlin 2002

Video files corresponding to example sentences from Neidle, Carol and Dawn MacLaughlin. 2002.The Distribution of Functional Projections in ASL: Evidence from Overt Expressions of Syntactic Features. G. Cinque, ed., Functional Structure in the DP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 195-224.

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Example sentence gloss In cases where different lexical items were used illustrating the same construction, the alternative lexical choices are indicated here.

 

 

JOHN LIPREAD YESTERDAY WHO

WHO LOVE JOHN

 

JOHN WILL GO, WILL

JOHN #EX NOT LIKE CHOCOLATE

'John didn't used to like chocolate.'

JOHN SHOULD NOT BUY HOUSE

JOHN NOT-HAVE-TO BUY HOUSE

JOHN WILL NOT BUY HOUSE

I KNOW IX OLD MAN

I KNOW IX OLD MAN

I KNOW IX OLD MAN

I KNOW IX OLD MAN

I KNOW IX OLD MAN

I KNOW IX OLD MAN

I KNOW OLD MAN

JOHN SHOOT FRANK

 

JOHN FINISH VISIT MARY