Sign Language & Linguistics
Editors
Sign Language & Linguistics is a peer-reviewed, international journal which aims to increase our understanding of language by providing an academic forum for researchers to discuss sign languages in the larger context of natural language, crosslinguistically and crossmodally. SLL presents studies that apply existing theoretical insights to sign language in order to further our understanding of SL; it investigates and expands our knowledge of grammar based on the study of SL and it specifically addresses the effect of modality (signed vs. spoken) on the structure of grammar.
SLL publishes its articles Online First.
Latest articles
18 November 2024
The interaction of syntax, non-manuals, and prosodic cues as potential topic markers in Austrian Sign
Language
Julia Krebs, Ronnie B. Wilbur, Dietmar Roehm & Evie A. Malaia
22 October 2024
Personal experience narratives in three West African sign languages: The influence of time-depth, community size and social interaction
(Leiden University, 2024)
Marta Morgado | SLL 27:2 (2024) pp. 248–257
15 October 2024
Phonological contrast and feature inventories in sign language: A study on French Sign Language (LSF)
(Université Paris Cité, 2022)
Justine Mertz | SLL 27:2 (2024) pp. 258–269
10 October 2024
Syntax and semantics of Role Shift in Japanese Sign Language
Noriko Kawasaki | SLL 27:2 (2024) pp. 209–239
23 July 2024
Exploring positional and dimensional aspects of topographic space for advanced-level British Sign Language
learners
Nicola Nunn | SLL 27:2 (2024) pp. 168–208
11 July 2024
Negation in Khuzestani Arabic and Sadat Tawaher Sign Language
(Purdue University, 2023)
Seyyed Hatam Tamimi Sa’d | SLL 27:2 (2024) pp. 240–247
17 June 2024
Jordan Fenlon & Julie A. Hochgesang (eds.). 2022. Signed language corpora
Reviewed by Anna Kuder | SLL 27:2 (2024) pp. 270–282
18 April 2024
Doubling in Hong Kong Sign Language
Emily Koenders | SLL 27:2 (2024) pp. 137–167
2 April 2024
Derivation in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Towards a morphology of LSC
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023)
Aida Villaécija | SLL 27:1 (2024) pp. 125–136
25 March 2024
Kata Kolok phonology – variation & acquisition
(Radboud University, 2022)
Hannah Lutzenberger | SLL 27:1 (2024) pp. 103–115
19 March 2024
The role of iconicity and simultaneity in efficient communication in the visual modality: Evidence from LIS (Italian Sign Language)
(Radboud University, 2022)
Anita Slonimska | SLL 27:1 (2024) pp. 116–124
14 March 2024
What is iconicity? The view from sign languages
Fabian Bross | SLL 27:1 (2024) p. 73
16 January 2024
Noun classifiers in Hong Kong Sign Language
Emily Koenders | SLL 27:1 (2024) pp. 35–72
9 January 2024
Torso articulation in sign languages
Donna Jo Napoli & Rachel Sutton-Spence | SLL 27:1 (2024) pp. 1–34
8 January 2024
Editors’ Notepad
SLL 26:2 (2023) p. 175
28 November 2023
Variation of sign parameters in narrative and expository discourse: A view from Israeli Sign Language
Shirit Cohen-Koka, Bracha Nir & Irit Meir | SLL 26:2 (2023) pp. 218–257
24 November 2023
Iconicity as a pervasive force in language: Evidence from Ghanaian Sign Language and Adamorobe Sign Language
(University of Brighton, 2021)
Mary Edward | SLL 26:2 (2023) pp. 323–331
23 October 2023
Units of sub-sign meaning in NGT: A toolbox for sub-sign meaning in a lexical database
Inge Zwitserlood, Els van der Kooij & Onno Crasborn | SLL 26:2 (2023) pp. 276–322
14 September 2023
Wh-doubling in German Sign Language: Why not sluicing?
Fabian Bross | SLL 26:2 (2023) pp. 258–275
31 August 2023
Esharani grammatical sketch: An initial description of the lexicon and grammar
(Gallaudet University, 2022)
Ardavan Guity | SLL 26:2 (2023) pp. 332–343
25 July 2023
Word order in simple sentences of tri-lingual tri-modal deaf students
Rama Novogrodsky, Rose Stamp & Sabrin Shaban-Rabah | SLL 26:1 (2023) pp. 37–63
3 July 2023
The count-mass distinction in Hong Kong Sign Language: A typological study into the surface manifestations and the grammatical encoding of the count-mass distinction in Hong Kong Sign Language using the framework of Distributed Morphology
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2022)
Emily A.J. Koenders | SLL 26:2 (2023) pp. 344–356
15 June 2023
Strategies for new word formation in NGT: A case for simultaneous morphology
Els van der Kooij, Inge Zwitserlood & Onno Crasborn | SLL 26:2 (2023) pp. 176–217
6 June 2023
Subject agreement in control and modal constructions in Russian Sign Language: Implications for the hierarchy of person features
Evgeniia Khristoforova | SLL 26:1 (2023) p. 64
18 April 2023
Neurophysiological evidence for the first mention effect during pronominal reference resolution in German Sign
Language
Anne Wienholz, Derya Nuhbalaoglu-Ayan, Nivedita Mani, Annika Herrmann, Edgar Onea & Markus Steinbach | SLL 26:1 (2023) pp. 117–138
4 April 2023
Classifiers, argument expression, and age of acquisition effects in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)
Hande Sevgi & Kadir Gökgöz | SLL 26:1 (2023) pp. 1–36
30 March 2023
Roland Pfau, Aslı Göksel & Jana Hosemann (eds). 2021. Our lives – our stories: Life experiences of elderly Deaf people
Reviewed by Serpil Karabüklü | SLL 26:1 (2023) pp. 159–169
17 March 2023
Focus and contrast in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Form and interpretation
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022)
Alexandra Navarrete-González | SLL 26:1 (2023) pp. 149–158
21 February 2023
How social structure affects the persistence and features of sign languages
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2022)
Katie Mudd | SLL 26:1 (2023) pp. 139–148
2 December 2022
Jeremy L. Brunson (ed). 2022. Legal interpreting: Teaching, research, and practice
Reviewed by Ran Yi | SLL 26:1 (2023) pp. 170–174
11 November 2022
Learning to introduce referents in narration is resilient to the effects of late sign language exposure
Cansu Gür & Beyza Sümer | SLL 25:2 (2022) pp. 205–234
30 September 2022
Hong Kong Sign Language numerals: Interaction of syntactic processes and the movement-parameter
Emily Koenders | SLL 25:2 (2022) pp. 163–204
13 July 2022
Person and number in Catalan Sign Language pronouns
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022)
Raquel Veiga Busto | SLL 25:2 (2022) pp. 258–266
7 July 2022
Development of spatial language and memory: Effects of language modality and late sign language exposure
(Radboud University Nijmegen, 2022)
Dilay Z. Karadöller | SLL 25:2 (2022) pp. 235–244
Lexical access in bimodal bilinguals
(Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 2021)
Saúl Villameriel | SLL 25:2 (2022) pp. 267–276
30 June 2022
Conditional clauses in German Sign Language (DGS) and Brazilian Sign Language (Libras): An empirical sociolinguistic study
(Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2021)
Liona Paulus | SLL 25:2 (2022) pp. 245–257
23 June 2022
ASL negative incorporation as negative suppletion
Gavin Bembridge | SLL 25:2 (2022) pp. 135–162
10 May 2022
On question words in Czech Sign Language
Hana Strachoňová | SLL 25:1 (2022) pp. 58–91
5 April 2022
Deborah Chen Pichler, Marlon Kuntze, Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice Müller de Quadros & Marianne Rossi Stumpf. 2018. Sign language acquisition by deaf and hearing children
Reviewed by Leah C. Geer | SLL 25:1 (2022) pp. 92–98
21 February 2022
Typological approach of meaningful components in several sign languages (SLs) with varying degrees of social integration: Consequences for SL typology and contribution of a first phylogenetic examination of Marajó Island SLs
(University Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, 2019)
Emmanuella Martinod | SLL 25:1 (2022) pp. 120–133
24 January 2022
Sizing up adjectives: Delimiting the adjective class in American Sign Language
Cornelia Loos | SLL 25:1 (2022) pp. 30–57
6 December 2021
Age of exposure and subject/object asymmetries when wh-movement goes rightward: The case of LIS interrogatives
Carlo Cecchetto, Alessandra Checchetto, Beatrice Giustolisi & Mirko Santoro | SLL 25:1 (2022) pp. 1–29
16 September 2021
Translating sign language poetry into spoken French: The prosodic impact when switching modalities
(Université Paris 8, 2020)
Fanny Catteau | SLL 25:1 (2022) p. 99
A descriptive grammar of Sign Language of the Netherlands
(University of Amsterdam, 2021)
Ulrika Klomp | SLL 25:1 (2022) pp. 110–119
19 July 2021
Challenges and solutions in test adaption: Comparing international experiences with the British Sign Language Production Test (Narrative
Skills)
Charlotte Enns, Vera Kolbe & Claudia Becker | SLL 24:2 (2021) pp. 226–258
16 July 2021
Marking various aspects in Turkish Sign Language:
bı̇t (‘finish’) and ‘bn’
Serpil Karabüklü & Ronnie B. Wilbur | SLL 24:2 (2021) pp. 182–225
2 July 2021
Single-parameter and parameter combination errors in L2 productions of Swiss German Sign Language
Sarah Ebling, Katja Tissi, Sandra Sidler-Miserez, Cheryl Schlumpf & Penny Boyes Braem | SLL 24:2 (2021) pp. 143–181
11 June 2021
Linearization constraints on sentential negation in Russian Sign Language are prosodic
Pavel Rudnev & Anna Kuznetsova | SLL 24:2 (2021) pp. 259–273
(In)definiteness in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) noun phrases: A syntax-semantics interface-based analysis
(Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2019)
Anderson Almeida da Silva | SLL 24:2 (2021) pp. 274–284
Learning to use space: A study into the SL2 acquisition process of adult learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands
(University of Amsterdam, 2020)
Eveline Boers-Visker | SLL 24:2 (2021) pp. 285–294
2 April 2021
Can you retrieve it? Pragmatic, morpho-syntactic and prosodic features in sentence topic types in Italian Sign Language (LIS)
Chiara Calderone | SLL 24:2 (2021) pp. 295–305
5 February 2021
Editor’s Notepad
SLL 24:1 (2021) pp. 1–3
15 December 2020
Subordination in French Sign Language (LSF): Sentential and nominal embedding
(Université de Paris & Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2019)
Charlotte Hauser | SLL 24:1 (2021) pp. 107–117
Negation and polar question–answer clauses in South African Sign Language
Kate Huddlestone | SLL 24:1 (2021) pp. 63–86
Phonological priming in German Sign Language: An eye tracking study using the Visual World Paradigm
Anne Wienholz, Derya Nuhbalaoglu, Markus Steinbach, Annika Herrmann & Nivedita Mani | SLL 24:1 (2021) p. 4
11 December 2020
Description and analysis of evaluative constructions in Italian Sign Language (LIS)
(Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Elena Fornasiero | SLL 24:1 (2021) p. 97
8 December 2020
Negation markers in Polish Sign Language (PJM)
(University of Warsaw, 2020)
Anna Kuder | SLL 24:1 (2021) pp. 118–131
Use and acquisition of mouth actions in L2 sign language learners: A corpus-based approach
Johanna Mesch & Krister Schönström | SLL 24:1 (2021) pp. 36–62
Iconicity as a mediator between verb semantics and morphosyntactic structure: A corpus-based study on verbs in German Sign Language
(University of Amsterdam, 2020)
Marloes Oomen | SLL 24:1 (2021) pp. 132–141
Diane Brentari. 2019. Sign language phonology
Reviewed by Hope E. Morgan | SLL 24:1 (2021) pp. 87–96
30 October 2020
Spatial metaphors in antonym pairs across sign languages
Carl Börstell & Ryan Lepic | SLL 23:1-2 (2020) pp. 112–141
From a demonstrative to a relative clause marker: Grammaticalization of pointing signs in Israeli Sign Language
Svetlana Dachkovsky | SLL 23:1-2 (2020) pp. 142–170
Structural cues for symmetry, asymmetry, and non-symmetry in Central Taurus Sign Language
Rabia Ergin, Ann Senghas, Ray Jackendoff & Lila Gleitman | SLL 23:1-2 (2020) pp. 171–207
Person vs. locative agreement: Evidence from late learners and language emergence
Lily Kwok, Stephanie Berk & Diane Lillo-Martin | SLL 23:1-2 (2020) pp. 17–37
Topic-open-endedness: Why recursion is overrated
Irit Meir | SLL 23:1-2 (2020) pp. 258–271
Argument structure and the role of the body and space in Kenyan Sign Language
Hope E. Morgan | SLL 23:1-2 (2020) pp. 38–72
Lexical iconicity is differentially favored under transmission in a new sign language: The effect of type of iconicity
Jennie Pyers & Ann Senghas | SLL 23:1-2 (2020) pp. 73–95
Visual foreign accent in an emerging sign language
Wendy Sandler, Gal Belsitzman & Irit Meir | SLL 23:1-2 (2020) pp. 233–257
Cross-linguistic metaphor priming in ASL-English bilinguals: Effects of the Double Mapping Constraint
Franziska Schaller, Brittany Lee, Zed Sevcikova Sehyr, Lucinda O’Grady Farnady & Karen Emmorey | SLL 23:1-2 (2020) p. 96
Measuring lexical and structural conventionalization in young sign languages
Oksana Tkachman & Carla L. Hudson Kam | SLL 23:1-2 (2020) pp. 208–232
Emily Shaw. 2019. Gesture in multiparty interaction
Reviewed by Ryan Lepic | SLL 23:1-2 (2020) pp. 272–279
Vadim Kimmelman. 2019. Information structure in sign languages: Evidence from Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of Netherlands
Reviewed by Derya Nuhbalaoglu | SLL 23:1-2 (2020) pp. 280–285
Irit Meir
Wendy Sandler, Rose Stamp, Marie Coppola & Diane Lillo-Martin | SLL 23:1-2 (2020) pp. 1–16
10 February 2020
Describing buoys from the perspective of discourse markers: A cross-genre study of French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)
Sílvia Gabarró-López | SLL 22:2 (2019) pp. 210–240
To shift or not to shift: Indexical attraction in role shift in German Sign Language
Annika Hübl, Emar Maier & Markus Steinbach | SLL 22:2 (2019) pp. 171–209
The clausal syntax of German Sign Language: A cartographic approach
(University of Stuttgart, 2018)
Fabian Bross | SLL 22:2 (2019) pp. 267–274
Verb agreement in Brazilian Sign Language: Morphophonology, syntax & semantics
(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2018)
Guilherme Lourenço | SLL 22:2 (2019) pp. 275–281
Comprehension and production of referential expressions in German Sign Language (DGS) and Turkish Sign Language (TİD): An empirical approach
(Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2018)
Derya Nuhbalaoglu | SLL 22:2 (2019) pp. 282–290
Compounds in sign languages: The case of Italian and French Sign Language
(École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 2018)
Mirko Santoro | SLL 22:2 (2019) pp. 291–297
Andrea Lackner. 2017. Functions of head and body movements in Austrian Sign Language
Reviewed by Benjamin Anible | SLL 22:2 (2019) pp. 298–302
Carolina Plaza-Pust. 2016. Bilingualism and deafness: On language contact in the bilingual acquisition of sign language and written language
Reviewed by Agnes Villwock | SLL 22:2 (2019) pp. 303–311
Interrogative marking in Chinese Sign Language: A preliminary corpus-based investigation
Hao Lin | SLL 22:2 (2019) pp. 241–266
9 October 2019
General use coordination in Japanese and Japanese Sign
Language
Yuko Asada | SLL 22:1 (2019) pp. 44–82
The noun-verb distinction in Catalan Sign
Language: An exo-skeletal approach
Eulàlia Ribera-Llonc, M. Teresa Espinal & Josep Quer | SLL 22:1 (2019) pp. 1–43
Rethinking handshape: A new notation system for sign language
Ella Wehrmeyer | SLL 22:1 (2019) p. 83
Gradable constructions in Italian Sign Language
(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 2017)
Valentina Aristodemo | SLL 22:1 (2019) pp. 112–117
The feature system of handshapes and phonological processes
in Shanghai Sign Language
(East China Normal University, 2018)
Shengyun Gu | SLL 22:1 (2019) pp. 118–128
Türk İşaret Dilinde uyum: Şablon biçimbilim açısından bir inceleme
(Ankara University, Ankara, 2018)
Bahtiyar Makaroğlu | SLL 22:1 (2019) pp. 129–139
Coordination and gapping in Catalan Sign Language
(LSC)
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018)
Giorgia Zorzi | SLL 22:1 (2019) pp. 140–149
Eleni Orfanidou, Bencie Woll & Gary Morgan (eds.). 2015. Research methods in sign language studies: A practical guide
Reviewed by Corrine Occhino & Lynn Hou | SLL 22:1 (2019) pp. 155–169
Anne Baker, Beppie van den Bogaerde, Roland Pfau & Trude Schermer (eds.). 2012. The linguistics of sign languages: An introduction
Reviewed by Rosalee Wolfe | SLL 22:1 (2019) pp. 150–154
22 March 2019
Agent-backgrounding in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
Gemma Barberà, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr & Josep Quer | SLL 21:2 (2018) pp. 334–348
Impersonal human reference in French Sign Language (LSF)
Brigitte Garcia, Marie-Anne Sallandre & Marie-Thérèse L’Huillier | SLL 21:2 (2018) pp. 307–333
Agent-backgrounding in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)
Meltem Kelepir, Aslı Özkul & Elvan Tamyürek Özparlak | SLL 21:2 (2018) pp. 257–283
Impersonal reference in Russian Sign Language (RSL)
Vadim Kimmelman | SLL 21:2 (2018) pp. 204–231
R-impersonal interpretation in Italian Sign Language (LIS)
Lara Mantovan & Carlo Geraci | SLL 21:2 (2018) pp. 232–256
Cross-linguistic variation in space-based distance for size depiction in the lexicons of six sign
languages
Victoria Nyst | SLL 21:2 (2018) pp. 349–378
R-impersonals in Hong Kong Sign Language
Felix Sze & Gladys Tang | SLL 21:2 (2018) pp. 284–306
Universal quantification in the nominal domain in American Sign Language (The University of Texas at Austin, 2017)
Elena I. Liskova | SLL 21:2 (2018) pp. 390–397
Strong pronominals in ASL and LSF?
Philippe Schlenker | SLL 21:2 (2018) pp. 379–389
Impersonal human reference in sign languages: Introduction and questionnaire
Gemma Barberà & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr | SLL 21:2 (2018) pp. 183–203
19 October 2018
Variation in phrasal rhythm in sign languages: Introducing “rhythm ratio”
Diane Brentari, Joseph Hill & Brianne Amador | SLL 21:1 (2018) pp. 41–76
Wh-clefts as evidence of resultatives in ASL
Ashley Kentner & Ronnie B. Wilbur | SLL 21:1 (2018) p. 77
NGT classifier constructions: An inventory of arguments
Vanja de Lint | SLL 21:1 (2018) pp. 3–39
Morphological properties of mouthings in Hungarian Sign Language (MJNY): A corpus-based study
Szilard Engelhardt | SLL 21:1 (2018) pp. 173–182
Discourse markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Buoys, palm-up and same
Sílvia Gabarró-López | SLL 21:1 (2018) pp. 153–162
Lexical nonmanuals in German Sign Language (DGS): An empirical and theoretical investigation
Nina-Kristin Pendzich | SLL 21:1 (2018) pp. 163–171
A new classifier-based plural morpheme in German Sign Language (DGS)
Marjorie Herbert | SLL 21:1 (2018) pp. 115–136
A negation-tense interaction in Georgian Sign Language
Tamar Makharoblidze & Roland Pfau | SLL 21:1 (2018) pp. 137–151
In Memoriam: Irit Meir (1957–2018)
SLL 21:1 (2018) p. 1
26 March 2018
Commentary on Bos (1998)
Kadir Gökgöz | SLL 20:2 (2017) pp. 270–278
Author’s preface
Heleen F. Bos | SLL 20:2 (2017) pp. 221–227
An analysis of main verb agreement and auxiliary agreement in NGT within the theory of Conceptual Semantics ()
Heleen F. Bos | SLL 20:2 (2017) pp. 228–252
Author’s afterword
Heleen F. Bos | SLL 20:2 (2017) pp. 253–269
On the notion of metaphor in sign languages: Some observations based on Russian Sign Language
Vadim Kimmelman, Maria Kyuseva, Yana Lomakina & Daria Perova | SLL 20:2 (2017) pp. 157–182
The syntax of nominal modification in Italian Sign Language
(LIS)
Lara Mantovan & Carlo Geraci | SLL 20:2 (2017) pp. 183–220
Object marking in the signed modality: Verbal and nominal strategies in Swedish Sign Language and other sign
languages
Carl Börstell | SLL 20:2 (2017) pp. 279–287
The syntax and the processing of argument relations in Austrian Sign
Language (ÖGS)
Julia Krebs | SLL 20:2 (2017) pp. 288–295
The syntax and semantics of resultative constructions in Deutsche
Gebärdensprache (DGS) and American Sign Language (ASL)
Cornelia Loos | SLL 20:2 (2017) pp. 296–303
6 November 2017
Describing spatial layouts as an L2M2 signed language learner
Lindsay Ferrara & Anna-Lena Nilsson | SLL 20:1 (2017) pp. 1–26
Two agreement markers in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)
Julia Krebs, Ronnie B. Wilbur & Dietmar Roehm | SLL 20:1 (2017) pp. 27–54
Iconicity in argument structure: Psych-verbs in Sign Language of the Netherlands
Marloes Oomen | SLL 20:1 (2017) p. 55
Sign language varieties of Indonesia: A linguistic and sociolinguistic investigation
Nick Palfreyman | SLL 20:1 (2017) pp. 135–145
Etude d’une langue des signes émergente de Côte d’Ivoire: l’exemple de la Langue des Signes de Bouakako
(LaSiBo)
Angoua Jean-Jacques Tano | SLL 20:1 (2017) pp. 146–155
Annika Herrmann. 2013. Modal and focus particles in sign languages. A cross-linguistic study (Sign Languages and Deaf Communities
2)
Reviewed by Jeremy Kuhn | SLL 20:1 (2017) pp. 129–134
Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language
Ana Mineiro, Patrícia Carmo, Cristina Caroça, Mara Moita, Sara Carvalho, João Paço & Ahmed Zaky | SLL 20:1 (2017) pp. 109–128
14 April 2017
Author’s preface
Heleen Bos | SLL 19:2 (2016) pp. 232–237
Serial verb constructions in Sign Language of the Netherlands
Heleen Bos | SLL 19:2 (2016) pp. 238–251
Distribution and duration of signs and parts of speech in Swedish Sign Language
Carl Börstell, Thomas Hörberg & Robert Östling | SLL 19:2 (2016) pp. 143–196
Sign language serial verb constructions fit into the bigger picture: Commentary on Bos (1996)
Brendan Costello | SLL 19:2 (2016) pp. 252–269
Language and modality: Effects of the use of space in the agreement system of lengua de signos española (Spanish Sign Language)
Brendan Costello | SLL 19:2 (2016) pp. 270–279
Teaching ASL fingerspelling to second-language learners: Explicit versus implicit phonetic training
Leah C. Geer | SLL 19:2 (2016) pp. 280–284
Motivation in morphology: Lexical patterns in ASL and English
Ryan Lepic | SLL 19:2 (2016) pp. 285–291
A cross-linguistic preference for torso stability in the lexicon: Evidence from 24 sign languages
Nathan Sanders & Donna Jo Napoli | SLL 19:2 (2016) pp. 197–231
15 September 2016
Indefiniteness and specificity marking in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
Gemma Barberà | SLL 19:1 (2016) pp. 1–36
Taking meaning in hand: Iconic motivations in two-handed signs
Ryan Lepic, Carl Börstell, Gal Belsitzman & Wendy Sandler | SLL 19:1 (2016) pp. 37–81
Finding frequency effects in the usage of NOT collocations in American Sign Language
Erin Wilkinson | SLL 19:1 (2016) p. 82
Cross-categorial singular and plural reference in sign language: (New York University, 2015)
Jeremy Kuhn | SLL 19:1 (2016) pp. 124–131
A descriptive grammar of morphosyntactic constructions in Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL): (University of Central Lancashire, 2014)
Sam Lutalo-Kiingi | SLL 19:1 (2016) pp. 132–141
4 February 2016
The ubiquity of mouthings in NGT: A corpus study. (Radboud University, Nijmegen, 2015)
Richard Bank | SLL 18:2 (2015) pp. 257–265
Rethinking constructed action
Kearsy Cormier, Sandra Smith & Zed Sevcikova-Sehyr | SLL 18:2 (2015) pp. 167–204
Indirect object markers in Georgian Sign Language
Tamar Makharoblidze | SLL 18:2 (2015) pp. 238–250
Weak hand holds in two sign languages and two genres
Anna Sáfár & Vadim Kimmelman | SLL 18:2 (2015) pp. 205–237
Laurence Meurant, Aurélie Sinte, Mieke van Herreweghe & Myriam Vermeerbergen (eds.). 2013. Sign language research, uses and practices. Crossing views on theoretical and applied sign language linguistics
Reviewed by Carla D. Morris | SLL 18:2 (2015) pp. 251–255
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The purpose of Sign Language & Linguistics is to increase understanding of language by providing a forum for researchers to discuss sign languages in the larger context of natural language, crosslinguistically and crossmodally. SLL seeks high quality papers exploring the challenges and contributions that the study of sign languages can offer to theoretical linguistics. Submissions are encouraged which:
a) apply existing theoretical insights to sign languages to further the understanding of SL;
b) investigate, evaluate, and expand our knowledge of grammar based on the study of SL; or
c) specifically address the effect of modality (signed vs. spoken)
on the structure of grammar.
Descriptive studies should offer facts embedded in, and in relation to, a theory against which they can be interpreted. Similarly, theoretical generalizations should be supported with robust evidence; the (in)adequacies of alternative analyses should be considered. The paper should reflect the author's thorough familiarity with the existing literature, its strengths and its weaknesses. To increase the accessibility of manuscripts to the larger linguistic audience, authors are encouraged to include accompanying videorecorded examples.
Areas of linguistics covered include: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonetics/kinematics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and typology.
Submission
Sign Language & Linguistics offers online submission.
Before submitting, please consult the guidelines and the Short Guide to EM for Authors.
If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors
via e-mail: em-sll
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Dissertation Abstracts and Book Reviews need not be submitted through the Editorial Manager system; they can be sent to the editors via email.
Articles under consideration are double-blind peer-reviewed and decisions on all published content are made by the editors.
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Open Access
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Subjects
Electronic/Multimedia Products
Main BIC Subject
CFZ: Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General