Adam C. Schembri

List of John Benjamins publications for which Adam C. Schembri plays a role.

Journal

ISSN 1568-1475 | E-ISSN 1569-9773
Lewin, Donna and Adam C. Schembri 2013 Mouth gestures in British Sign Language: A case study of tongue protrusion in BSL narrativesNonmanuals in Sign Language, Herrmann, Annika and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 91–110 | Article
This article investigates the claim that tongue protrusion (‘th’) acts as a nonmanual adverbial morpheme in British Sign Language (BSL) (Brennan 1992; Sutton-Spence & Woll 1999) drawing on narrative data produced by two deaf native signers as part of the European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO)… read more
Lewin, Donna and Adam C. Schembri 2011 Mouth gestures in British Sign Language: A case study of tongue protrusion in BSL narrativesNonmanuals in Sign Language, Herrmann, Annika and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 94–114 | Article
This article investigates the claim that tongue protrusion (‘th’) acts as a nonmanual adverbial morpheme in British Sign Language (BSL) (Brennan 1992; Sutton-Spence & Woll 1999) drawing on narrative data produced by two deaf native signers as part of the European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO)… read more
Beuzeville, Louise de, Trevor Alexander Johnston and Adam C. Schembri 2009 The use of space with indicating verbs in Auslan: A corpus-based investigationSign Language & Linguistics 12:1, pp. 53–82 | Article
One of the most salient and interesting aspects of the grammar of signed languages is their use of space to track referents through discourse. One way in which this has been observed is the spatial modification of lexical verbs to show semantic roles associated with the verb’s arguments. In this… read more
Cormier, Kearsy, Adam C. Schembri and Martha E. Tyrone 2008 One hand or two? Nativisation of fingerspelling in ASL and BANZSLSign Language & Linguistics 11:1, pp. 3–44 | Article
In this paper, we focus on the nativisation process as a fully fingerspelled word or fingerspelled letters become a fingerspelled loan or initialised sign. Previous models of nativisation (e.g., Brentari & Padden 2001) have described forms derived from one-handed fingerspelling systems; however,… read more
Johnston, Trevor Alexander and Adam C. Schembri 1999 On Defining Lexeme in a Signed LanguageSign Language & Linguistics 2:2, pp. 115–185 | Article
In this paper we attempt to define the notion of ‘lexeme’ in relation to signed languages. We begin by defining signs as a distinct kind of visual-gestural communicative act, different from other communicative uses of gesture. This is followed by a discussion of the most important categories of… read more