SV: [SLLING-L] Looking for foreign co-operation

[Sonja Erlenkamp]

Dear Nedelina,
 
Lífið er eins og konfekt, þú veist aldrei hvað þú færð!
"This is Norway calling" ;) One would think that Icelandic and Norwegian researchers had better contact, but here we are. Interesting project you propose. Tricky, but nonetheless interesting and important. Personally, I think that it is not possible to propose only one kind of root that fit all types of signs, but that is so far only a thought. I would definitely be interested in discussing the topic with you, also on the background of our (hopefully soon to be...) Norwegian Sign Language corpus project. 
Can you contact me at:
 
sonja.erlenkamp at hist.no <mailto:sonja.erlenkamp at hist.no>  
 
so we can discuss the matter more in detail and see if we can create some cooperation. BTW: Unfortunately I don't talk icelandic, but being as close to Norwegian as Icelandic is, I can understand some of it :)
 
All the best 
 
Sonja Erlenkamp
Professor in signed language linguistics
University College of Sør-Trøndelag
7004 Trondheim
Norway
 
 

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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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