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 …

In this chapter, we extend a usage-based theory of Construction Morphology to the analysis
of sign language structure, to address two long-standing categorization problems in sign …

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 …

Abstract Words that are systematically related in form and meaning exhibit morphological
structure. A fundamental question in morphological theory concerns the nature of this …

We question the commonly accepted assumption that American Sign Language (ASL) has
no overt copula. We present evidence that one of the functions of the sign self in present-day …

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 …

In many descriptions of ASL, signs like SISTER and TOMATO are analyzed as compounds.
These are signs which were once created through the concatenation of two separate signs …

The use of a lesser-used or minority language in new media is typically a stimulus for genre
development and stylistic variation. This study considers online video texts in New Zealand …

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 …