Conventions used in the text
1. Linguistics and sign linguistics
2. BSL in its social context
3. Constructing sign sentences
4. Questions and negation
5. Mouth patterns and non-manual features in BSL
6. Morphology and morphemes in BSL
7. Aspect, manner and mood
8. Space types and verb types in BSL
9. The structure of gestures and signs
10. Visual motivation and metaphor
11. The established and productive lexicons
12. Borrowing and naming signs
13. Socially unacceptable signs
14. Extended use of language in BSL
Table of illustrations
Index
Index of signs
Bibliography.

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