This web site accompanies The Linguistics of Sign Languages. An introduction, edited by Anne Baker, Beppie van den Bogaerde, Roland Pfau and Trude Schermer (2016). It provides video examples from a variety of sign languages, assignments for self-testing, and links to web resources.

Notes on the video clips

We are very grateful to the following people and institutions for providing video material:

• HKSL: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sign Language group under prof. Gladys Tang.
• NGT: Dutch Sign Centre (NGC), The Netherlands.
• SASL: National Institute for the Deaf at Worcester, South Africa (NID).
• NGT: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Marijke Scheffener.
• SASL: Wits University, South African Sign Language department, South Africa.
• LSE: Dr. Brendan Costello from the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), San Sebastian, Spain – with Anchca Ruz de Anguo Marquez.
• BSL: Dr. Pamela Perniss from the University of Brighton, United Kingdom – with Neil Fox.
• RSL: Dr. Vadim Kimmelman from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands – with T.P. Davidenko.
• NGT: Prof. Beppie van den Bogaerde from the University of Amsterdam and the University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands – with Boaz Blume, Dorota Migdal and Selena Waas.
• ASL: Prof. Debbie Chen Pichler from Gallaudet University, USA – with Dr. Julia A Hochgesang, Franklin Jones, Carmelina Kennedy, Wanda A. Riddle, Wink Smith and Mary Thumann.
• LSC: Prof. Josep Quer from the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain – with Santiago Frigola.
• IPSL: Sibaji Panda from the ISLANDS Centre, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom.

All ethical rights of the signers have been respected.

Other links to video clips have been taken from open sources on internet:

• British Sign Language sign bank which provides an on-line dictionary for BSL.
• New Zealand Sign Language on line dictionary.

Abbreviations of sign language names can be found in the book in Appendix one. This site will be continually added to as more video material becomes available.

Browser advise

This companion site will in principle work with recent versions of all widely-used browsers. We have discovered, however, that new html encoding that we developed in order to present non-manual markers above glosses ‒ used in examples in a few of the assignments/answers ‒ is not equally well-supported by all browsers. It works fine in Chrome, Safari and Opera; in Firefox, the scope is correctly given but the marker is centered rather than right-aligned. Internet Explorer and Edge, unfortunately, are not able to handle it very well. We are looking to improve our solution so that it works in more browsers, but for the time being, we would advise you to use Chrome, Safari, Opera, or Firefox if you want to see those examples in a correct presentation.