Signers and speakers coordinate a broad range of intentionally expressive actions within
the spatiotemporal context of their face-to-face interactions (;;;). Varied semiotic repertoires …

We aim to demonstrate the importance of defining linguistic phenomena by using
constructed action or CA (ie a stretch of discourse that represents one role or combination of …

The multilingual turn is increasingly endorsed and promoted by such political forces as the
Council of Europe. The CEFR Companion Volume with New Descriptors (Council of Europe …

In the last decade, a growing body of work has convincingly demonstrated that languages
embed a certain degree of non-arbitrariness (mostly in the form of iconicity, namely the …

Functional neuroimaging allows investigation of the timing properties of the brain
mechanisms underlying covert language processing. This paper presents a review of the …

In this paper, we present arguments for an analysis of indicating verbs, building on Liddell
(2000), as a typologically unique, unimodal fusion of morphemes and pointing gestures …

We use automatic processing of 120,000 sign videos in 31 different sign languages to show
a cross-linguistic pattern for two types of iconic form–meaning relationships in the visual …

Indicating verbs can be directed toward locations in space associated with their arguments.
The primary debate about these verbs is whether this directionality is akin to grammatical …

This paper investigates the interplay of constructed action and the clause in Finnish Sign
Language (FinSL). Constructed action is a form of gestural enactment in which the signers …

Meanings communicated with depictions constitute an integral part of how speakers and
signers actually use language (Clark, 2016). Recent studies have argued that, in sign …