Grammar, Gesture, and Meaning in American Sign Language
Liddell's "...non-polemical and carefully reasoned argumentation is a welcome relief in an overheated field...The lucidity of presentation and the cogency of the new analyses lead the reader into exploring rich new territory, rather than into quarrels about assessments of established domains.  In the end, I expect that readers of various theoretical persuasions will have a number of "aha experiences" as they slowly come to understand and appreciate [Liddell's] re-mapping of the territory.  This is a major contribution to sign language linguistics, and to linguistics generally."Dan I. Slobin, University of California, Berkeley, Language