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 …

The first 40 years of research on the neurobiology of sign languages (1960–2000)
established that the same key left hemisphere brain regions support both signed and …

. Introduction. How do children learn a sign language?. e path of sign language
development.. e pre-linguistic stage.. e one-and two-word stages.. e differentiation stage …

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 …

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 …

If language has evolved for communication, languages should be structured such that they
maximize the efficiency of processing. What is efficient for communication in the visual …

Sign languages have traditionally been described as having a distinction between (1)
arbitrary (referential or syntactic) space, considered to be a purely grammatical use of space …

Sign languages use the horizontal plane of the signing space to introduce discourse
referents at particular referential loci (R-loci). R-loci could be viewed as abstract referential …

This paper reconsiders arguments suggesting that sign language analyses must proceed
differently to take into account their gestural, iconic origins. Lillo-Martin & Meier (2011) argue …