One reason for the apparent gulf between animal and human communication systems is that
the focus has been on the presence or the absence of language as a complex expressive …

Since the 1990s, the field of sign language typology has shown that sign languages exhibit
typological variation at all relevant levels of linguistic description. These initial typological …

Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art
that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. Small leaves and other objects …

Pointing signs are used for pronominal reference (among many other functions) in sign
languages. Many pointing signs do not look very different from non-signers' pointing …

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

The sign language phenomenon that some scholars refer to as “agreement” has triggered
controversial discussions among sign language linguists. Crucially, it has been argued to …

The term homesign has been used to describe the signing of deaf individuals who have not
had sustained access to the linguistic resources of a named language. Early studies of child …

Academic interest in sign languages in the global South, especially those that developed in
small signing communities has grown rapidly in recent years. Many basic questions about …

In this paper, we present arguments for an analysis of indicating verbs, building on Liddell
(2000), as a typologically unique, unimodal fusion of morphemes and pointing gestures …

Abstract Language is not a purely cultural phenomenon somehow isolated from its wider
environment, and we may only understand its origins and evolution by seriously considering …