A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages

L Ferrara, B Anible, G Hodge, T Jantunen… - Linguistic …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Do signers of different signed languages establish and maintain reference the same way?
Here we compare how signers of five Western deaf signed languages coordinate fully …

Framing of constructed action in elicited narratives and conversational narratives in Norwegian Sign Language

JH Bredeli - 2022 - duo.uio.no
This master's thesis will focus on the reference and discourse strategy in Norwegian Sign
Language known as constructed action (CA). During CA, signers map a narrative referent …

" Your Turn!": Using Finger Pointing and PALM-UP Actions to Ask Questions in Norwegian Sign Language

B Arnold, L Ferrara - Sign Language Studies, 2024 - muse.jhu.edu
Researchers examining the structure of questions in signed languages, often using elicited
data from informants, have proposed that there are specific manual and nonmanual actions …