summary In Understanding International Sign, Lori Whynot examines International Sign (IS)
to determine the extent it is comprehended by signers from different countries. She focuses …

Locative expressions encode the spatial relationship between two (or more) entities. In this
paper, we focus on locative expressions in signed language, which use the visual-spatial …

The ability to use language to talk about space is a fundamental aspect of language and
cognition. In learning to talk about space, children need to figure out adult-like …

This paper explores the expression of multiple entities in Turkish Sign Language (Türk İşaret
Dili; TİD), a less well-studied sign language. It aims to provide a comprehensive description …

This book examines spatial language in sign languages (Turkish Sign Language, Croatian
Sign Language, American Sign Language, and Austrian Sign Language) and spoken …

The dissertation assesses the communicative effectiveness of International Sign, a contact
sign language phenomenon. The study responds to a void in empirical inquiry into this …

Öz Bu çalışma Türk İşaret Dili'nde (TİD) sabit ve hareketli olayların anlatımında sınıflandırıcı
kullanımını araştırmıştır. Beklendiği gibi, sonuçlar göstermektedir ki TİD sınıflandırıcıları …

This study is about expressing spatial relationships between Figure and Ground in Finnish
Sign Language discourse and shows that the variation in this expression is primarily …

Linguistic spatial descriptions are not purely arbitrary, but are to some extent motivated by
many interactive factors. For example, whether the language community is predominantly …

The path and manner of objects in motion events have been studied in many languages.
Previous research has focused on whether both path and manner are expressed in the main …