<div dir="ltr">Edward,<div><br></div><div>The Green Books' A Teacher's Resource Text on Grammar and Culture, published in 1980's, still stands as one of the best books on ASL grammar. It also includes explanation and examples on how it differs between the range of different signed communication in the U.S., i.e. "strong" ASL to Signed English with Pidgin Sign English (contact language) in the middle. In there it covers information on relative clauses and other things that you asked about as well.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sarah</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:06:10 -0400<br>
From: "Edward Loper" <<a href="mailto:edloper@gradient.cis.upenn.edu">edloper@gradient.cis.upenn.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [SLLING-L] Good descriptive grammar for ASL?<br>
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I'm going to be auditing a linguistic typology course, where we<br>
explore what different syntactic, morphological, etc., phenomena are<br>
attested by the world's language. Each student in the class will<br>
choose a single language to look at in depth, as we move through a<br>
variety of topic areas. (We'll be covering a selection of topics<br>
discussed in "Langauge Typology and Syntactic Description" by Timothy<br>
Shopen.)<br>
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I was thinking of using ASL as my language, but I'm by no means an<br>
expert in ASL, so I would really need to have a good descriptive<br>
grammar. Does a (fairly comprehensive) descriptive grammar for ASL<br>
exist? Optimally, it should give some discussion of the topics we'll<br>
be covering in the course: part-of-speech, morphology, tense, aspect,<br>
mood, causal verbs, lexical nominalization, word order, clause types,<br>
functions of the noun phrase, complex phrases, complex sentences,<br>
complementation, negation, passives, and relative clauses.<br>
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Any suggestions?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
-Edward<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sarah Hafer<br>Junior Specialist, Corina Lab<br>Cognitive Neurolinguistics Laboratory<br>UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain<br>(877) 467-4877, ext. 51639<br>(530) 297-4427 videophone (Sorenson)<br>
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