It is generally admitted that “syntax involves the stringing together of independent subunits
into a longer signal”(Hurford 2003: 43), and thereby allows an infinite number of such …

Although language utterances primarily consist of sequences of phonemes, morphemes and
words, language is not limited to linearity. There are many linguistic phenomena that show a …

What is the relationship between the simple or elementary objects of grammar, wordlike
things, and its composite or complex objects, phrase-like things? I focus here on a small …

It is generally believed that American Sign Language has no grammatical tense, but rather
that temporal information is conveyed through the use of time adverbials. 1 However, there …

Following Slobin et al.(2001), I prefer to use the term polycomponential verb to refer to this
category of signs rather than alternatives such as classifier predicate or polymorphemic …

This paper deals with the relative empirical length of signs in sign languages and provides
evidence for the view that they are actually longer units than has hitherto been recognized …

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 …

Strange as it may seem, in spite of wide-spread and fruitful use of zero signs in linguistics,
there is, as far as I know, no universally accepted good definition of the concept itself of …

Morphology of spoken languages is the study of word formation. It therefore includes
inspection of the interrelation of stems with various affixes as well as discussion of the …

In this paper we examine the theory of the structure of signs that grew from Stokoe's (1965)
proposals. We begin by examining argument for the structural simultaneity of signs by …