Some concepts are more essential for human communication than others. In this paper, we
investigate whether the concept of agent-backgrounding is sufficiently important for …

The present research combines three fields of inquiry in sign language linguistics: verbal
agreement, person features, and syntactic complexity. These topics have previously been …

Typologically, the world's languages vary in how they express universal quantification and
negative quantification. In patterns of concord, a single distributive or negative meaning is …

This chapter presents an overview of the morphology found in passive constructions.
Passive constructions vary with respect to a range of properties linked to object promotion …

R-impersonals are linguistic devices conveying a human and non-referential subject. In
Italian, R-impersonality can be realized through impersonal si and third-person plural pro …

Il presente studio si pone l'obiettivo di analizzare una costruzione ancora poco studiata nella
lingua dei segni italiana (LIS): le costruzioni passive. Esse sono state ampiamente studiate …

In many sign languages around the world, some verbs express grammatical agreement,
while many others do not. Curiously, there is a remarkable degree of semantic overlap …

Human impersonal pronouns—pronouns used to refer to an antecedentless, unspecified
person or group of people—and the range of functions these pronouns can fill cross …

With the present volume I wish to share not only the knowledge gained about bilingualism
and deafness throughout the last years but also the enthusiasm that has guided me all along …