New 4th Edition completely revised and updated with new DVD now available; ISBN 1-56368-283-4.

Completely reorganized to reflect the growing intricacy of the study of ASL linguistics, the 5th edition presents 26 units in seven parts, including new section

Sign languages are of great interest to linguists, because while they are the product of the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that o

Recent research on the syntax of signed language has revealed that, apart from some modality-specific differences, signed languages are organized according to t