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FOREIGN VOCABULARY IN SIGN LANGUAGES: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC INVESTIGATION OF WORD FORMATION.Diane Brentari (Ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001. Pp. xx + 186. $49.95 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2002

Rico Peterson
Rico Peterson
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National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Lexical borrowing among languages is a commonplace in the study of linguistics. Still, the recognition of the bona fides of the various sign languages of the world is relatively recent. In this volume, Brentari offers a fascinating series of case studies of borrowing in five different sign languages.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , December 2002 , pp. 647
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press