Adam C. Schembri
List of John Benjamins publications for which Adam C. Schembri plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1568-1475 | E-ISSN 1569-9773
Articles
2013 Mouth gestures in British Sign Language: A case study of tongue protrusion in BSL narratives Nonmanuals 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
2011 Mouth gestures in British Sign Language: A case study of tongue protrusion in BSL narratives Nonmanuals 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
2009 The use of space with indicating verbs in Auslan: A corpus-based investigation Sign 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
2008 One hand or two? Nativisation of fingerspelling in ASL and BANZSL Sign 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
2004 Review of Liddell ((2003)): Grammar, gesture and meaning in American Sign Language Gesture 4:1, pp. 101–107 | Review
1999 On Defining Lexeme in a Signed Language Sign 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