ASL - English Grammar

A Comparative Linguistics Handbook

This handbook is unique in the Deaf Studies field in that it compares and contrasts the phonological, morphological, syntactical and semantic structures of visual-spatial ASL and aural-oral English. [Kevin Struxness, MA; Virginia (Ginger) Marable, PhD; (2013) 225 pages; soft cover; spiral bound]

This handbook contains:

• Parts of speech, phrases & clauses: more than 1 000 paired examples
  
• Loan signs: 90 with explanations
  
• Idioms: 215 with translations
  
• Classifiers: 25 with examples
  
• Mouth morphemes: 50 with examples and illustrations at four levels
  
• Abbreviations & acronyms: 200 with translations
  
• Study questions & answers: 70 pages, beginning through advanced levels