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 …

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

Modern society depends on numerical information, which must be communicated accurately
and effectively. Numerical communication is accomplished in different modalities—speech …

In a small group of deaf sign language users from different countries and with no shared
language, the signers' initial conversational interactions are investigated as they meet in …

This article looks at translanguaging practices in four Yucatec Maya communities with a high
incidence of deafness in the peninsula of Yucatán, Mexico. Deaf and hearing community …

This special issue of Sign Language Studies is focused on recent developments in the study
of rural sign languages, which have arisen from the spontaneous interactions between deaf …

In this article, we examine various strategies used to express cardinal numbers in Yucatec
Maya Sign Languages (YMSLs) from three historically unrelated communities in Yucatán …

The diverse sign languages (SLs) between established deaf community SLs and homesign
have been called the “grey area” of SL linguistics, by virtue of their resistance to …

Typological comparisons have revealed that signers can use manual elements and/or a non-
manual marker to express standard negation, but little is known about how such systematic …

Human languages, signed and spoken, can be characterized by the structural patterns they
use to associate communicative forms with meanings. One such pattern is paradigmatic …