active / passive mode in sign language

[Terry Janzen]

For Anne-Claude (but for anyone who might be interested),

Please see our upcoming article in the spring 2001 issue of Sign Language
Studies (Vol.1, no. 3) "The Construal of Events: Passives in American Sign
Language" (Terry Janzen, Barbara O'Dea, and Barbara Shaffer) in which we
discuss in detail a proposal for passive morphology in ASL.  A preliminary
discussion appears as:

Janzen T., B. O'Dea, & B. Shaffer. 2000. Passive Constructions in American
Sign Language. Berkeley Linguistics Society 23. 434-445.

See also:

Kegl, J. 1990. Predicate Argument Structure and Verb-Class Organization in
the ASL Lexicon. In C. Lucas (Ed.), Sign Language Research: Theoretical
Issues. Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press. 149-175.

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Janzen, Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
252 St. Paul's College
University of Manitoba
70 Dysart Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3T 2M6

janzent at cc.umanitoba.ca
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