This article examines the language influence between a majority language with a fully described grammar (Slovene) and a minority language without fully described grammar (Slovene Sign Language - SZJ). When producing locative clauses in SZJ, hearing and deaf signers tend to adopt Slovene spatial adpositions although SZJ originally lacks them. L1 deaf signers, however, do not follow the grammar of Slovene adpositions but use these signs according to the SZJ grammar - as adverbs.
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