What you are holding (or reading digitally) is the first comprehensive descriptive grammar of
Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse Gebarentaal, NGT). It is a unique …

Although sign languages are crucial for research on the human linguistic capacity, argument
structure in these languages is rarely addressed in theoretical and typological studies. This …

This study investigates differences in language production of native, early-learner, and late-
learner Turkish Sign Language (Türk İşaret Dili–TİD) signers in the domain of classifiers. For …

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 …

This chapter discusses the classifier predicates from a formal semantic perspective. It
summarizes the theoretical approaches towards analyzing sign language classifiers and the …

We investigate transitivity prominence of verbs across signed and spoken languages, based
on data from both valency dictionaries and corpora. Our methodology relies on the …

Whether spoken language verbal classifiers and sign language classifier handshapes are
comparable enough to be treated similarly is a subject of debate in the literature. In this …

Sign languages employ iconic strategies in their morphology in expressing spatial relations.
These strategies, while iconic, are incorporated into the grammatical system and follow …

Sign languages show the same range of morphological processes as spoken languages.
Linguistic research on many different sign languages has identified various kinds of …

One Root to Build Them All: Roots in Sign Language Classifiers Page 1 One Root to Build Them
All: Roots in Sign Language Classifiers Hande Sevgi 1. Introduction Classifiers in sign languages …