The sign language phenomenon that some scholars refer to as “agreement” has triggered
controversial discussions among sign language linguists. Crucially, it has been argued to …

This book presents a first comprehensive overview of existing research on information
structure in sign languages. Furthermore, it is combined with novel in-depth studies of …

Over the past decades, the field of sign language linguistics has expanded considerably.
Recent research on sign languages includes a wide range of subdomains such as reference …

When we use language, we usually transfer information. Languages have the tools to
encode information (words, morphemes, grammatical patterns), but also to help the …

Sign language grammars, just like spoken language grammars, generally provide various
means to generate different kinds of complex syntactic structures including subordination of …

Sign languages use the horizontal plane to refer to discourse referents introduced at
referential locations. However, the question remains whether the assignment of discourse …

Previous studies on agreement violation in sign languages report neurophysiological
responses similar to those observed for spoken languages. In contrast, the two current event …

Sign languages are natural languages existing in the visual-gestural modality used by the
deaf communities. Previous research found that literary texts in sign languages use a …

In this paper, we examine agent backgrounding in Italian Sign Language (LIS). Specifically,
we are interested in identifying and describing the strategies used by LIS signers to reduce …

Anaphoric pronoun resolution in spoken language has been shown to be influenced by the
first mention bias. While this bias has been well investigated in spoken languages, less is …