Since the 1990s, the field of sign language typology has shown that sign languages exhibit
typological variation at all relevant levels of linguistic description. These initial typological …

A renewed interest in understanding the role of iconicity in the structure and processing of
signed languages is hampered by the conflation of iconicity and transparency in the …

Editorial board: Sam Lutalo-Kiingi, Ronice Müller de Quadros, Nick Palfreyman, Roland
Pfau, Adam Schembri, Gladys Tang, Erin Wilkinson, Jun Hui Yang The series is dedicated to …

Studies of spoken languages have revealed that interesting typological patterns exist in
several semantic fields. Within a particular field, the number of terms and their distribution …

This article offers a brief overview of historical linguistics and explores the value of historical
sign linguistics. The specific focus of the article is on the question of the extent to which the …

Editorial board: Carlo Geraci, Rachel McKee, Victoria Nyst, Marianne Rossi Stumpf, Felix
Sze, Sandra Wood Over the past decades, the field of sign language linguistics has …

Linguists have long been interested in the grammatical structure of native signed languages.
The identification and analysis of units such as clauses and sentences has been of …

Typological studies require a broad range of linguistic data from a variety of countries,
especially developing nations whose languages are under-researched. This is especially …

Although spoken language nominal typology has been subject to much scrutiny, research
on signed language nominal word order typology is still a burgeoning field. Yet, the structure …

The descriptive contribution of this paper is a typology of mouthing constructions in 37
signed languages and an analysis of the ideologies and resources that affect their …