Signers and speakers coordinate a broad range of intentionally expressive actions within
the spatiotemporal context of their face-to-face interactions (;;;). Varied semiotic repertoires …

Already at a relatively early stage, modern sign language linguistics focused on the
representation of (actions, locations, and motions of) referents (1) through the use of the …

A survey of reports of sign order from 42 sign languages leads to a handful of
generalizations. Two accounts emerge, one amodal and the other modal. We argue that …

In spoken and signed language discourse, periods of gestural enactment, or constructed
action, appear sequentially and simultaneously with linguistic signs. In the domain of signed …

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 …

This paper presents a study of the use of constructed action (CA) in the stories and
conversations of adult Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) signers of different ages. CA is …

This paper investigates the interplay of constructed action and the clause in Finnish Sign
Language (FinSL). Constructed action is a form of gestural enactment in which the signers …

We present evidence for the influence of semantics on the order of subject, object, and verb
in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) sentences. While some have argued for a prevailing …

This dissertation reports on a linguistic investigation into the use of depicting signs in
Australian Sign Language (Auslan). Depicting signs are analyzed as partly lexical signs …

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 …