... This article examines the current state of many online sign language dictionaries by providing an overview of their primary characteristics and presenting a framework for their description, comparison, and analysis. The main aims are to discuss the diverse characteristics of 54 general dictionaries...

...Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz; Sylwia Łozińska historical lexicography sign languages Polish Sign Language [email protected] © 2023 Oxford University Press. 2023 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org...

...This chapter shows that the formal properties that have been identified as defining traits of human languages in the generative tradition hold in sign languages as well. Specifically: (i) clauses in sign languages have a hierarchical and recursive organization, (ii) general constraints on syntactic...

... in signing during the sensitive period for language development and discounting the language of others. ASL American Sign Language avoidance context deaf communities Fisher J N grammar Hoeksema J humo u r identity politics lexicon marginalization Mirus G Napoli D J sign language signing...

...Negation systems in sign languages have been shown to display the core grammatical properties attested for natural language negation. Negative manual signs realize clausal negation in much the same way as in spoken languages. However, the visual-gestural modality affords the possibility to encode...

... American Sign Language ASL Warlpiri Warlbiri Culicover Peter W Dennett Daniel C case concatenation grammar morphology German finite state grammar FSG Merge Minimalist Program MP node phrase structure rules prosody recursion affix auxiliary child language enrichment schema primates...

...Figure 37.1 A sign variant meaning ‘good’ in Swedish Sign Language (Swedish Sign Language Dictionary online 2020: #12077) Figure 37.2 The palm(s)-up gesture/sign (Swedish Sign Language Dictionary online 2020: #18717) Figure 37.4 A list buoy in Swedish Sign Language: three items listed...

... intermediate structures, such as “middles,” and the corroborating evidence comes from language acquisition studies, especially involving sign languages emerging from scratch. English Bloom Lois Agree ment argument predicate structure case Continuity Hypotheses intransitivity nominative null arguments...

... their structural patterns, may be as variable as the empirical facts require. The implications of this change of perspective are demonstrated with respect to sign languages, the property of recursion, and more. Evans N Levinson S C diversity of languages evolution of language morphology phonetics phonology...

... (on the X axis) and (b) single agreement form (on the diagonal) of the ISL verb GIVE (‘3^rd person gives to 3^rd person’). The chapter investigates how a new language develops devices for marking argument structure, by investigating two young sign languages, Israeli Sign Language (ISL...

.... Adults can change or modify the communicative system—enrich touch, sound, and verbal language for the blind child; converse in sign language with the deaf child; and provide brief, specific requests and directions and positive feedback to the ADHD child—while still conveying the same meanings. To help...

...This is a compendium of work by scholars and activists involved in deaf matters. The introduction chapter sets up the global context; it is followed by twelve chapters, seven of which deal with the creation, context, and form of sign languages, and five of which deal with social issues and civil...

...Sign languages are unlike spoken languages because they are produced by a wide range of visibly perceivable articulators: the hands, the face, the head, and the body. There is as yet no consensus on the division of labour between these articulators and the linguistic elements or subsystems...

... languages retain a strong mimetic, or iconic, component such as in Italian sign language some 50% of hand signs and 67% of the bodily locations of signs stem from iconic representations. The addition of phonation, perhaps through selection for a FOXP₂ mutation, would allow non-visible gestures...

...Biolinguistics promotes an effective, biologically grounded approach to language. Sign language studies have greatly contributed to our current understanding of the biological nature of the human faculty for language. However, a more central position of sign language studies within this fresh...

...Sign languages and creoles are two kinds of young languages, and, as such, may be expected to be less complex than their older counterparts. This chapter shows that sign languages and creoles are simpler than other languages with respect to two central features of morphosyntax, namely the flagging...

...The study of village sign languages is at the forefront of new approaches to developing a typology of languages. Indeed, recent research has shown that the study of village sign disconfirms some of our previously held assumptions about the linguistic structure of sign languages based on the study...

... after World War II effected changes in the world view of deaf people that led to the establishment of schools for deaf children. Missionaries introduced foreign sign languages or the oral method rather than local sign languages. British Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language were imposed on African...

...Jennifer Green, Australian Indigenous sign languages. In: The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages. Edited by Claire Bowern, Oxford University Press. © Jennifer Green (2023). DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198824978.003.0052 Australian Indigenous sign languages hold...

...Humans' first languages may have been expressed through sign. Today, sign languages have been found around the world, including communities that do not have access to education or literacy. In addition to serving as a primary medium of communication for deaf communities, they have become among...