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) …

In this study, we consider variation in a class of signs in Australian and New Zealand Sign
Languages that includes the signs think, name, and clever. In their citation form, these signs …

One of the most salient and interesting aspects of the grammar of signed languages is their
use of space to track referents through discourse. One way in which this has been observed …

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 …

One key criterion when creating a representation of the lexicon of any language within a
dictionary or lexical database is that it must be decided which groups of idiosyncratic and …

It has been argued that referential pointing signs in signed languages (SLs) are linguistic
signs of the grammatical class pronoun rather than pointing gestures. In support of the …

Although New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) is used by a closely networked national Deaf
community, it exhibits considerable variation in the lexicon that has been anecdotally and …

This article presents the results from a preliminary investigation into the use of fingerspelling
in Australian Sign Language (Auslan), drawing on data collected as part of the …

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 …

This dissertation reports on a linguistic investigation into the use of depicting signs in
Australian Sign Language (Auslan). Depicting signs are analyzed as partly lexical signs …