The field of linguistics concerns itself with understanding the human capacity for language.
Compositionality is a key notion in this research tradition. Compositionality refers to the …

The usage-based framework considers linguistic structure to be emergent from how human
languages are used, and shaped by domain-general cognitive processes. This paper …

In this paper, we investigate frequency and duration of signs and parts of speech in Swedish
Sign Language (SSL) using the SSL Corpus. The duration of signs is correlated with …

Verb agreement in signed languages has received substantial attention for a long time.
Despite the numerous analyses about the linguistic status of verb agreement, there is little …

Usage-based linguistics postulates that multi-word expressions constitute a substantial part
of language structure and use, and are formed through repeated chunking and stored as …

The internet has become a space where many sign language users post, watch, and share
videos and video blogs (vlogs) through social media. This mass of videos produced by, for …

Nearly all such studies have sought to understand the linguistic constraints of spoken
languages, while largely neglecting signed languages. Despite the fact that spoken …

We investigate the contact situation between Israeli Sign Language (ISL) and Kufr Qassem
Sign Language (KQSL) in a bilingual deaf community in Israel. We examine one outcome of …

In this chapter, we argue that the usage-based notion of recycling of sequential units, as it
has been articulated in the study of multi-word expressions in spoken languages, provides a …

Recent studies on linguistics, cognitive science and psychology have shown that describing
lexical frequency characteristics can answer many critical questions on language …