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 article proposes that at least two agent-backgrounding operations with different
syntactic and semantic properties have to be distinguished in Catalan Sign Language …

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 …

This paper contains the first description of impersonal reference in Russian Sign Language
(RSL). Impersonal reference has been investigated using a variety of elicitation techniques …

This article investigates what strategies are used for defocusing the agent in two-participant
clauses in FinSL. The question is approached by analyzing a set of data that consists of …

Bringing together the areas of sign language semantics-pragmatics interface and discourse
reference, this article offers a description of how indefiniteness and (non‑) specificity is …

This study focuses on the description of argument structure and word order in Saudi Sign
language (SSL). The nature of the syntactic level of the grammar of SSL is clarified. Since …

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

Impersonal human reference is still an underexplored domain of sign languages. The main
aim of this special issue is to chart the different strategies to refer to backgrounded human …

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 …