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 …

In this paper, basic verb classes and argument structure alternations in Russian Sign
Language (RSL) are described, and the implications of these data for the theory of argument …

We analyze argument structure of whole-entity and handling classifier predicates in four sign
languages (Russian Sign Language, Sign Language of the Netherlands, German Sign …

The present research combines three fields of inquiry in sign language linguistics: verbal
agreement, person features, and syntactic complexity. These topics have previously been …

We discuss three case studies on various grammatical phenomena in Russian Sign
Language (RSL) and Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) in order to compare corpus …

The present paper offers a first systematic approach to the expression of impersonal human
reference in French Sign Language (LSF). It extends and deepens a prior study carried out …

Abstract Language contact research is often concerned with understanding which bounded
language (s) are the source of particular linguistic forms, and identifying and explaining (in) …

This chapter presents the Russian Sign Language (RSL) Corpus and demonstrates its
capabilities as a research tool by summarizing three corpus-based studies primarily focused …

This paper discusses R-impersonals in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL). As evidenced in
our questionnaire and conversation data, R-impersonals in HKSL typically make use of null …

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 …