There are two relevant papers from Australia on Auslan:

Johnston (1999) On defining lexeme in a signed language. Sign language and linguistics
is an indepth look at this issue.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jbp/sll/1999/00000002/00000002/art00002?crawler=true

and:

Johnston (2001) The lexical database of Auslan. Sign language and linguisics is also probably relevant to you.

Louise de B.

> Nedelina Ivanova <nedelina@visir.is> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> My name is Nedelina Ivanova. I am working on a sign language dictionary 
> project
> for Icelandic Sign Language at The Communication Centre for The Deaf and 
> Hard
> of Hearing in Reykjavik, Iceland.
> 
> The purpose of my letter is as following: I am going to apply for á 
> project
> grant from the Icelandic Research Fund and I am looking for foreign
> co-operation. The main subject of my research will be morphology of 
> Icelandic
> Sign Language. I am going to research among other things sing´s root: 
> what is
> the root of a sign; how can the grammar category root be defined for 
> Icelandic
> SL; is there only one possibility for definition or are they more??
> 
> My question to all of you is: Is someone interested to research the same 
> topic
> in the sign language of his country of origin? Probably you know someone 
> who
> will be interested??? The main idea is to share information on our 
> researches
> via emails and see which the conclusions will be. Then always is 
> possible to
> publish the main conclusions of our research. 
> 
> I know that some discussions have been taken place in the teams working 
> on a
> making of SL dictionary but as far as my knowledge reaches there aren’t 
> any
> publications on this issue. I asked twice on the sign language mailing 
> list if
> someone is familiar with researches of any kind on this issue but I 
> never got
> an answer.
> 
> I think that this is a very interesting area of research and I hope that 
> some
> of you would like to join me in this research.
> 
> With best regards from Iceland
> Nedelina Ivanova
> 
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