Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration
opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human …

A comprehensive overview of the semantics and syntax of indexical shift that develops a
constrained typology of the phenomenon across languages. The phenomenon of indexical …

We aim to demonstrate the importance of defining linguistic phenomena by using
constructed action or CA (ie a stretch of discourse that represents one role or combination of …

This volume consists of an introduction and two groups of essays by Paul M. Postal, each
with a connecting theme. The first, positive group of papers, contains five previously …

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 …

The linguistic resources displayed by sign languages (SLs) in order to reproduce someone
else's utterances or thoughts have remained absent from the semantic research on reported …

Indexicals are context-dependent expressions such as I, you, here and now, whose
semantic value is determined by the context in which they are uttered (eg I denotes John if …

In a reenactment, a speaker re-presents or depicts a previously occurring event, often
dramatically. In this article we examine the role of gaze in reenactments in conversations …

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 …

The linguistic resources displayed by sign languages (SLs) in order to reproduce or recreate
someone else's utterances or thoughts have remained absent from the syntactic and …