In signed languages, the arguments of verbs can be marked by a system of verbal
modification that has been termed “agreement”(more neutrally,“directionality”). Fundamental …

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 …

One type of internal diachronic change that has been extensively studied for spoken
languages is grammaticalization whereby lexical elements develop into free or bound …

One major question in linguistics is whether the universals among spoken languages are
the same as those among signed languages. Two types of universals have been …

Spoken languages employ various strategies to mark the plural of nouns, the most important
ones being affixation, reduplication, and zero marking; within one language, different …

This commentary on Lillo-Martin and Meier (2011)(henceforth LMM) f ocuses on the clitic vs
agreement question that pervades research in formal linguistics, by no means unique to sign …

In this paper the results of an investigation of word order in Russian Sign Language (RSL)
are presented. A small corpus of narratives based on comic strips by nine native signers was …

Background Broadly, verb forms in many established sign languages divide between those
that move in space in front of the signer's body (agreement and spatial verbs) and those that …

Bringing together the research fields of sign language linguistics and information structure,
this bookfocuses onthe realization of modal particles and focus particles in three European …

Sentential negation in German Sign Language (DGS) is particularly interesting, because it
involves the combination of a manual and a non-manual element. The manual element is …