Complex cause-result events such as wiping a table off can be encoded linguistically with a
single verb (clean), a resultative (wipe the table clean), or a multiclausal construction (wipe …

Sign languages apply different means to mark focus and other information structural notions.
So-called question-answer pairs are one of these options to highlight constituents. Based on …

Signers just as speakers of a language make use of referential expressions to communicate
in various situations. The main difference between definite/indefinite noun phrases …

Investigating the syntactic structure of utterances with multiple predicates in sign languages
requires a clear understanding of how many finite and infinitival clauses they contain and …

Word order is one of the best studied and most discussed issues in spoken and sign
language linguistics. Therefore, it is stunning that there is yet no broader empirical …

This paper has two objectives: we provide a detailed description of the DGS corpus, the
largest existing collection of German Sign Language (DGS) data, and we show how such a …