Book notice: volume on SL variation

[Pfau, R.]

Hello everyone,

 

We are happy to announce that Mouton de Gruyter has just published a (400 page) volume on

 

"Visible Variation: Comparative studies on sign language structure"

 

edited by Pamela Perniss (MPI Nijmegen), Roland Pfau (University of Amsterdam), and Markus Steinbach (University Of Mainz).

 

For more information see:

http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sp/detail.cfm?id=IS-9783110195781-1

 

 

Table of contents:

 

Can't you see the difference? Sources of variation in sign language structure

Pamela Perniss, Roland Pfau, and Markus Steinbach

 

Occurrence of mouthings in American Sign Language: A preliminary study

Marie A. Nadolske and Rachel Rosenstock

 

Do all pronouns point? Indexicality of first person plural pronouns in British Sign Language and American Sign Language

Kearsy Cormier

 


Negation in Jordanian Sign Language: A cross-linguistic perspective


Bernadet Hendriks

 

On the syntax of negation and modals in Catalan Sign Language and German Sign Language

Roland Pfau and Josep Quer

 

'Real data are messy': Considering cross-linguistic analysis of constituent ordering in Australian Sign Language, Flemish Sign Language, and Irish Sign Language

Trevor Johnston, Myriam Vermeerbergen, Adam Schembri, and Lorraine Leeson

 

Cross-linguistic comparison of interrogatives in Croatian, Austrian, and American Sign Languages

Ninoslava Šarac, Katharina Schalber, Tamara Alibašić, and Ronnie B. Wilbur

 

The expression of modal meaning in German Sign Language and Irish Sign Language

Annika Herrmann

 

Reported action in Nicaraguan and American Sign Languages: Emerging versus established systems

Jennie Pyers and Ann Senghas

 

Grammaticalization of auxiliaries in sign languages

Markus Steinbach and Roland Pfau

 

The possible range of variation between sign languages: Universal Grammar, modality, and typological aspects

Annette Hohenberger

 

 

Best regards,

 

Pamela, Markus, and Roland

 

 

 

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