Recent research on the syntax of signed language has revealed that, apart from some modality-specific differences, signed languages are organized according to the same underlying principles as spoken
This manuscript is a revision of my 1982 MIT dissertation of the same name. A previous version of sections of chapters 1 and 5 appeared as 'Case Agreement in Russian', in The Mental Representation of
Recent research on the syntax of signed languages has revealed that, apart from somemodality-specific differences, signed languages are organized according to the same underlyingprinciples as spoken l
