Justin M. Power
List of John Benjamins publications in which Justin M. Power is involved.
Articles
2026 New insights into nineteenth-century ASL Diachronica 43:2, pp. 224–265 | Article
The study of language change in American Sign Language (ASL) has been constrained by a limited historical record. Here we present five case studies that demonstrate how applying a broad set of historical methods, together with the consultation of underutilized sources of sign data, can shed new… read more
2025 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 42:2, pp. 137–160 | Editorial
Sequential structure and diachronic assimilation in signed languages Diachronica: Online-First Articles | Article
Assimilatory processes are generally understood to rely on sequential structure: a target element adopts features of a preceding or following element. While signed languages arguably show less sequential structure than spoken languages, there are several areas of the grammar of signed languages… read more