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FOREIGN VOCABULARY IN SIGN LANGUAGES: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC INVESTIGATION OF WORD FORMATION.Diane Brentari (Ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001. Pp. xx + 186. $49.95 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2002

Rico Peterson
Affiliation:
National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology

Extract

Lexical borrowing among languages is a commonplace in the study of linguistics. Still, the recognition of the bona fides of the various sign languages of the world is relatively recent. In this volume, Brentari offers a fascinating series of case studies of borrowing in five different sign languages.

Type
Book Review
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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