Integrating current findings in linguistics, semiotics, and anthropology, Stokoe fashions a closely reasoned argument that suggests how our human ancestors' pow

Superior to any other book on the subject that I have seen. I can see it being used as a class text or reference for current theory in sign language phonology.C

Recent research on the syntax of signed language has revealed that, apart from some modality-specific differences, signed languages are organized according to t