In this dissertation, I investigate various aspects of object marking and how these manifest
themselves in the signed modality. The main focus is on Swedish Sign Language (SSL), the …

This paper investigates agent-backgrounding constructions in Turkish Sign Language (TİD).
TİD displays many of the agent-backgrounding strategies reported in the literature that …

The current chapter conveys selected information about the linguistic frameworks which
have been functional for the present investigation, and in particular takes into consideration …

This article discusses differential object marking and object shift in German Sign Language
(DGS). Although there is already some literature discussing the existence of differential …

A comparison of emerging signed languages and creole languages provides evidence that,
when language is emerging, it prioritizes marking the novelty of information; is readily …

En este trabajo exponemos nuestra investigación sobre la cohesión y la coherencia
discursivas en una narrativa en lengua de signos. El análisis y la interpretación de los datos …

We discuss the use of the question-answer pattern for relativization across signed
languages, with special attention for Catalan Sign Language. These are cases in which …

This paper examines backgrounding strategies for human agents in Catalan Sign
Language, that is, constructions featuring human agents that are non-referential. We identify …

While definiteness encodes the information that the sender assumes that the addressee has,
specificity encodes the knowledge that the sender has and the anchoring to an item. The …

Prior studies on spoken languages have shown that indefinite and interrogative pronouns
may be formally very similar. Our research aims to understand if sign languages exhibit this …