Do signers of different signed languages establish and maintain reference the same way?
Here we compare how signers of five Western deaf signed languages coordinate fully …

This article describes how deaf signers of Auslan (a deaf signed language of Australia)
coordinate fully conventionalised forms (such as lexical manual signs and English …

It has been claimed that in American Sign Language (ASL), the sign glossed as IX is used
for a variety of functions, including personal pronouns, locatives, and determiners (Meier …

Editorial board: Carlo Geraci, Rachel McKee, Victoria Nyst, Marianne Rossi Stumpf, Felix
Sze, Sandra Wood Over the past decades, the field of sign language linguistics has …

Speakers use a range of devices, such as nouns and pronouns, to introduce referents and to
indicate a shift between multiple referents. Sign languages also exploit different devices for …

The human pointing gesture may be viewed from many angles. On a basic description, it is
an intentional movement, often of the hand, by which one person tries to direct another's …

Human communication is composite. It involves the voice, face, hands, and the rest of the
body. It integrates categorical elements and gradient ones, highly conventional and ad hoc …

Grounding refers to expressions that establish a connection between the ground and the
content evoked by a nominal or finite clause. In this paper we report on two grammatical …

ABSTRACT Providence Island Sign Language is an indigenous sign language of Colombia,
used in the Caribbean Island of Providence (Spanish: Providencia). First described in the …

When referring to non-present entities, speakers and signers can select from a range of
different strategies to create expressions that range from extremely concise to highly …