Clayton Valli (1951–2003)

Not quite what I was expecting, but I still learned a lot. I wanted to fill in gaps of my knowledge of ASL (and sign languages in general), so this seemed like a good start. I was expecting it to be an in-depth study of ASL, but it's really an intro to linguistics textbook that just happens to use ASL (and English) for the examples. I ended up skimming a lot of the content for this reason and just focusing on the examples.

Unusually, about half of this book is a standard textbook and the show more other half is a series of supplemental readings. There's also a very useful DVD with video examples. As someone already well-informed in linguistics, the supplemental readings were more interesting to me than the textbook itself. show less

I got this primarily for the CD that comes with the book - I can use it on my iPhone. Now that I have the book in front of me, I'm really enjoying reading the introduction, which gives a great history and linguistical background to the language.

Versión actualizada de la morfología y la sintaxis de la lengua de señas de EE.UU.