This book presents primary data and typological comparisons across sign languages with respect to three semantic fields: kinship terms, colour terms and quantification. Based on a large-scale study of 32 sign languages from all over the world, these topics are explored in 10 sign languages, accompanied by an introductory part and an appendix with original research materials
For sign languages used by deaf communities, linguistic corpora have until recently been unavailable...
Sign languages can be categorized as shared sign languages or deaf community sign languages, dependi...
Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the react...
Nearly all such studies have sought to understand the linguistic constraints of spoken languages, wh...
This extensive, well-researched and clearly formatted lexicon of a wide variety of linguistic terms ...
Sign language typology is the study of languages that use the visual-gestural rather than the audito...
How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constru...
This is a database containing 1542 signs from 19 signs languages in 7 semantic fields annotated acco...
It has been argued that properties of the visual-gestural modality impose a homogenizing effect on s...
ii It is commonly believed that sign language is a universal language. However, linguists researchin...
The topic of word classes remains curiously under-represented in the sign language literature due to...
The uses and practices of sign languages are strongly related to scientific research on sign languag...
Natural languages come in two different modalities. The impact of modality on the grammatical struct...
For a long time, sign languages -the languages used mainly within Deaf communities- were, at best, c...
The uses and practices of sign languages are strongly related to sign language structure and researc...
For sign languages used by deaf communities, linguistic corpora have until recently been unavailable...
Sign languages can be categorized as shared sign languages or deaf community sign languages, dependi...
Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the react...
Nearly all such studies have sought to understand the linguistic constraints of spoken languages, wh...
This extensive, well-researched and clearly formatted lexicon of a wide variety of linguistic terms ...
Sign language typology is the study of languages that use the visual-gestural rather than the audito...
How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constru...
This is a database containing 1542 signs from 19 signs languages in 7 semantic fields annotated acco...
It has been argued that properties of the visual-gestural modality impose a homogenizing effect on s...
ii It is commonly believed that sign language is a universal language. However, linguists researchin...
The topic of word classes remains curiously under-represented in the sign language literature due to...
The uses and practices of sign languages are strongly related to scientific research on sign languag...
Natural languages come in two different modalities. The impact of modality on the grammatical struct...
For a long time, sign languages -the languages used mainly within Deaf communities- were, at best, c...
The uses and practices of sign languages are strongly related to sign language structure and researc...
For sign languages used by deaf communities, linguistic corpora have until recently been unavailable...
Sign languages can be categorized as shared sign languages or deaf community sign languages, dependi...
Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the react...