<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>October 24, 2010</div><div><br></div><div>This sounds like a terrific project. Perhaps some of you will be interested in participating? If so, write directly to the people mentioned in the message below....</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>------------<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Ulrike Zeshan" <<a href="mailto:uzeshan@UCLAN.AC.UK">uzeshan@UCLAN.AC.UK</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">October 23, 2010 11:36:51 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>new sign language typology project - first call for participation</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"linguists interested in signed languages" <<a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU</a>><br></span></div><br><div style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Segoe UI"><div style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">NEW SIGN LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY PROJECT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Sign Language Typology Research Group, now located at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK, is ready to begin another large-scale cross-linguistic study on the structure of sign languages around the world. This is the third such project, after completing studies on “interrogative and negative constructions” and on “possessive and existential constructions”. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">PROJECT<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This project will look at semantic fields within the lexicon of sign languages. We will study colour terms, kinship terms, number systems, and sensory perception (“seeing” and “hearing”) across ca. 30 sign languages from all regions of the world. As in the previous projects, individuals or research groups can participate. We normally work with co-researchers from ca. 15-20 countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">PROCEDURE<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p><font face="Calibri"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We will first establish contact with co-researchers through an initial background questionnaire. If both parties agree to collaborate, we then send out research materials, consisting of typological questionnaires and various game activities. The latter are designed to elicit data from the target domains. All data are compiled for a comparative analysis, and the results are shared with all our partners. Selected contributions are published in an edited volume at the end of the project<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">FURTHER INFORMATION<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Groups and individuals who are interested in participating in this project can contact Ulrike Zeshan (</span><a href="mailto:uzeshan@uclan.ac.uk"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font color="#0000ff">uzeshan@uclan.ac.uk</font></span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">) or the project assistant Keiko Sagara (<u><span style="COLOR: blue"><a href="mailto:ksagara@uclan.ac.uk">ksagara@uclan.ac.uk</a></span></u>) for further information. The project is based at the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDS) in Preston, UK. For information about the Institute, see <u><span style="COLOR: blue"><a href="http://www.uclan.ac.uk/islands">www.uclan.ac.uk/islands</a></span></u>. For information about the sign language typology project, click on “Research@iSLanDS” - “Themes” - “Sign Language Typology”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">For information about the publication of project results, see these previous volumes:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">Zeshan, Ulrike (2006a) (ed.): <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Interrogative and negative constructions in sign languages.</i> Sign Language Typology Series No. 1. Nijmegen: Ishara Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">Zeshan, Ulrike & Pamela Perniss (eds.) (2008): <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Possessive and existential constructions in sign languages.</i> Sign Language Typology Series No. 2. Nijmegen: Ishara Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Please feel free to distribute this Call for Participation to other people and organisations who might be interested in contributing.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </b>For this project, all research materials are available in English and International Sign.</span></div><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span> </p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span> </p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b> </div>
<div>Prof. Ulrike Zeshan<br>Director, International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies<br>International School for Communities, Rights, and Inclusion<br>Livesey House, LH212<br>University of Central Lancashire<br>Preston PR12HE, UK<br><a href="mailto:uzeshan@uclan.ac.uk">uzeshan@uclan.ac.uk</a><br>Ph. +44-1772-893104</div>
<div>Fax +44-1772-894933<br></div></div>
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