Austin German
List of John Benjamins publications in which Austin German is involved.
Articles
2026 Conventionalization of size-and-shape specifiers in Zinacantec Family Homesign Sign Language & Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines size-and-shape specifiers (SASSes) in Zinacantec Family Homesign (‘Z sign’), an emerging sign language developed by three deaf siblings and their hearing family members in an indigenous community of Mexico. SASSes depict the visual attributes of objects via a hand… read more
2025 The emergence of linguistic structure in Zinacantec Family Homesign Sign Language & Linguistics 28:1, pp. 163–171 | Abstract
2024 Abrupt grammatical reorganization of an emergent sign language: The expression of motion in Zinacantec Family Homesign Thematic issue: Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages, pp. 171–202 | Article
This study traces the development of discrete, combinatorial structure in Zinacantec Family Homesign (‘Z Sign’), a sign language developed since the 1970s by several deaf siblings in Mexico (Haviland 2020b), focusing on the expression of motion. The results reveal that the first signer, who… read more