In the sign languages of the deaf some signs can meaningfully point toward things or can be
meaningfully placed in the space ahead of the signer. Such spatial uses of signs are an …

The quantitative paradigm in sociolinguistics originated in the studies conducted by William
Labov in New York and Philadelphia in the 1960s and 1970s. This chapter outlines the …

A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its
contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language …

Information Structure in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands Page 1
Sign Language & Linguistics 18:1 (2015), 142–150. doi 10.1075/sll.18.1.06kim issn 1387–9316 …

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 …

This article, part of a larger project that studied sociolinguistic variation in American Sign
Language, examines that variation in a class of American Sign Language signs exemplified …

Clinical Sociolinguistics examines how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to
assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation. fills gap in the literature for …

This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and
social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and …

The analysis in this chapter addresses the question of why sign languages look more similar
to each other than spoken languages do. It is generally recognized that this has something …

Until now there has been no robust (socio) linguistic documentation of urban sign language
varieties in Indonesia, and given the size of the Indonesian archipelago, it might be …