This volume presents the first results of a long-term research project, funded by the Italian
government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal …

Sign language anaphora is often realized very differently from its spoken language
counterpart. In simple cases, an antecedent is associated with a position or “locus” in …

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of COST (European Cooperation in
Science and Technology), funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the …

While it is now accepted that sign languages should inform and constrain theories of
'Universal Grammar', their role in 'Universal Semantics' has been under-studied. We argue …

This dissertation explores the structure of the Determiner Phrase (DP) in American Sign
Language (ASL), with particular emphasis on determiners, adjectives, possessives, and …

There are two main approaches to the problem of donkey anaphora (eg If John owns a
donkey, he beats it). Proponents of dynamic approaches take the pronoun to be a logical …

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 …

Deaf children whose hearing losses are so severe that they cannot acquire spoken
language and whose hearing parents have not exposed them to sign language …

If you look closely at any sign language, you will soon discover familiar local gestures–nods,
hand signals, even facial expressions–embedded within the language stream. At least …

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 …