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 …

This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-
date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues …

This is a vocabulary research manual. It aims to give you the background knowledge
necessary to design rigorous and effective research studies into the behavior of L1 and L2 …

Sign language in action is a term that we have coined to encompass how sign languages
are used in everyday life. In Chapter 2, we framed the notion of sign language in action …

This paper presents an overview of the British Sign Language Corpus Project—the first
endeavor to create a machine-readable digital corpus of British Sign Language (BSL) …

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

Indicating verbs can be directed toward locations in space associated with their arguments.
The primary debate about these verbs is whether this directionality is akin to grammatical …

This article presents data on cardinal numerals in three sign languages from small-scale
communities with hereditary deafness. The unusual features found in these data …

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 …

In my dissertation, I focus on the documentation and comparison of indigenous sign
languages in Yucatán, Mexico. I conducted fieldwork in four Yucatec Maya communities with …