Sometimes form-meaning mappings in language are not arbitrary, but iconic: they depict
what they represent. Incorporating iconic elements of language into a compositional …

We argue that some sign language loci (ie positions in signing space that realize discourse
referents) are both formal variables and simplified representations of what they denote; in …

Editorial board: Sam Lutalo-Kiingi, Ronice Müller de Quadros, Nick Palfreyman, Roland
Pfau, Adam Schembri, Gladys Tang, Erin Wilkinson, Jun Hui Yang The series is dedicated to …

Esta tesis examina la concordancia en la lengua de signos española (LSE) y ofrece una
extensa descripción de los mecanismos que la gobiernan en base a datos recogidos de …

Sign languages use the horizontal plane of the signing space to introduce discourse
referents at particular referential loci (R-loci). R-loci could be viewed as abstract referential …

This paper reconsiders arguments suggesting that sign language analyses must proceed
differently to take into account their gestural, iconic origins. Lillo-Martin & Meier (2011) argue …

Abstract American Sign Language (ASL) famously disambiguates pronoun antecedents with
the use of space. In ASL, both referential and quantificational noun phrases (NPs) can be …

Aims and Objectives: Learning to control reference in narratives is a major step in becoming
a speaker of a second language, including a signed language. Previous research describes …

Although the phonological description of spatial planes that configure signing space is very
detailed (Brentari 1998; Liddell and Johnson 1989; Sandler 1989), our knowledge of their …

To fully define the grammar of American Sign Language (ASL), a linguistic model of its
nonmanuals needs to be constructed. While significant progress has been made to …