. Introduction. How do children learn a sign language?. e path of sign language
development.. e pre-linguistic stage.. e one-and two-word stages.. e differentiation stage …

Information Structure in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands Page 1
Sign Language & Linguistics 18:1 (2015), 142–150. doi 10.1075/sll.18.1.06kim issn 1387–9316 …

What you are holding (or reading digitally) is the first comprehensive descriptive grammar of
Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse Gebarentaal, NGT). It is a unique …

Taking its cue from sign languages, this paper proposes that the recruitment and
composition of body actions provide evidence for key properties of language and its …

This paper reports a study of the forms and functions of head movements produced in the
dimension of depth in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Specifically, the paper describes and …

Bringing together the research fields of sign language linguistics and information structure,
this bookfocuses onthe realization of modal particles and focus particles in three European …

This book presents a hypothesis-based description of the clausal structure of German Sign
Language (DGS). The structure of the book is based on the three clausal layers CP, IP/TP …

This book presents a first comprehensive overview of existing research on information
structure in sign languages. Furthermore, it is combined with novel in-depth studies of …

This article discusses a certain type of nonmanual action, signers' head movements, from a
semiotic perspective. It presents a typology of head movements and their iconic, indexical …

Conditional clauses are underresearched in sign languages, and the research that has
been done has mostly employed elicited data. The current study provides a thorough …