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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Conventions used
• 1. Linguistics and sign linguistics
• 2. BSL in its social context
• 3. Constructing sign sentences
• 4. Questions and negation
• 5. Mouth patterns and other 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 name signs
• 13. Socially unacceptable signs
• 14. Extended use of language in BSL
• Bibliography
• Subject index
• Index of signs in the text