This chapter discusses French Sign Language (LSF) corpora and how they have evolved over the last thirty years in France. We first outline the epistemological and social conditions in which corpora were constructed by the pioneers of the field to explain how, in our opinion, their corpus-driven… read more
The present paper offers a first systematic approach to the expression of impersonal human reference in French Sign Language (LSF). It extends and deepens a prior study carried out by the authors on the basis of a large scale discourse corpus. The description proposed here is based primarily on… read more
Much research has examined the development of motion expression, but little is known about this domain in sign language. This study examines how signers (Deaf children aged 5–10 and adults) of French Sign Language (LSF) described clips showing voluntary motion events with variable Paths and Manners. read more
L’expression des déplacements a fait l’objet de nombreuses recherches en acquisition des langues vocales et de quelques travaux dans plusieurs langues des signes, mais pas en langue des signes française (LSF). Ce travail est donc une première étude des déplacements en LSF par comparaison au… read more