Theoretical and Methodological Developments in Processability Theory
Edited by Kristof Baten, Aafke Buyl, Katja Lochtman and Mieke Van Herreweghe
[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 4] 2015. vii, 273 pp.
Mieke Van Herreweghe
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mieke Van Herreweghe plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
2018 Flemish Sign Language development: A case study on Deaf mother – deaf child interactions Functions of Language 25:2, pp. 289–322 | Article
This case study provides a first exploratory study on the early Flemish Sign Language acquisition of a deaf infant from the perspective of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Theory. It highlights some remarkable aspects of sign language acquisition with respect to interpersonal interaction between… read more
2015 Chapter 1. Processability theory: Assessment of the current state and future perspectives Theoretical and Methodological Developments in Processability Theory, Baten, Kristof, Aafke Buyl, Katja Lochtman and Mieke Van Herreweghe (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2008 Iconicity in sign languages Naturalness and Iconicity in Language, Willems, Klaas and Ludovic De Cuypere (eds.), pp. 189–214 | Article
Sign languages are visual-gestural communication systems with a great potential for iconic structures and indeed, in sign languages iconicity is pervasive, both on the lexical and the grammical levels. However, in early sign language research the role of iconicity was downplayed in order to stress… read more
2007 Constituent order in Flemish Sign Language (VGT) and South African Sign Language (SASL): A cross-linguistic study Sign Language & Linguistics 10:1, pp. 23–54 | Article
This paper reports on a comparison of word order issues, and more specifically on the order of the verb and its arguments, in two unrelated sign languages: South African Sign Language and Flemish Sign Language. The study comprises the first part of a larger project in which a number of grammatical… read more
2000 Motan in The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages, Auwera, Johan van der and Patrick Dendale (eds.), pp. 207–239 | Article
Abstract. In this paper we have tried to establish which paths the Old English modal *motan followed from Old English central meaning of permission to Modern English central meaning of obligation, by looking at peripheral meanings of *motan. The data presented here were drawn from The Anglo-Saxon… read more
1999 Sign (Language) Interpreting in Flanders, Belgium Babel 45:4, pp. 318–344 | Article
Abstract In this article the authors give an overview of sign language interpretation in Flanders, Belgium. After a short introduction on Flanders and its linguistic situation, the authors spend some time discussing sign language in Flanders from a historical perspective and discussing its current… read more