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

Thu Sep 3 06:50:48 UTC 2009

Dear Nedelina,

Just to sharpen Sonja Erlenkamps statement: E.g. verbs in signed
languages are often composed of a number of simultaneous components. On
the contrary, spoken languages have mostly linear ordering of morphemes.
Trying out to get a SL verb root from, let's say four simultaneous
components (morphemes), leads to the result that we are not able to
show/visualize this root in a way which compares to present a spoken
language verb's root by some sounds.
This is a hint to look at sign languages as a type of languages where
the linguistic concept of "root" is not always successfull/adequate. We
have to find out how signers "compose" concepts using different
(sometimes diagrammatic) denoting elements. Taking e.g. all verbs which
connect to a direct kinesthetic storage in the brain, we have to look
for those important cognitive elements which are (sometimes
obligatorily, very often facultatively) coded in sign language. The
concept of "embodiment" should open us for new insights here.
As we have a rather big online dictionary for Austrian Sign Language
(http://ledasila.uni-klu.ac.at) - which we offer for free use for
other sign languages - and are interested in methodological questions,
we would like to establish further exchange.

Best Regards

Franz Dotter

University of Klagenfurt
Center for Sign Language and Deaf Communication
Funded by: Provincial government of Carinthia, Bundessozialamt
Kaernten, European Social Fund
Head: Franz Dotter (hearing)
Collaborators: Elisabeth Bergmeister (deaf), Silke Bornholdt (deaf),
Jennifer Dörrschuck (hearing), Katja Hablich (hearing), Christian Hausch
(deaf), Marlene Hilzensauer (hearing), Petra Käfer (hearing), Klaudia
Krammer (hearing), Christine Kulterer (hearing), Andrea Lackner
(hearing), Anita Pirker (deaf), Andrea Skant (hearing), Nathalie
Slavicek (hard of hearing), Natalie Unterberger (deaf)
Homepage: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/zgh
Deaf server (in German): http://deaf.uni-klu.ac.at
Fax: ++43 (0)463 2700 2899
Phone: ++43 (0)463 2700 /2821 (Franz Dotter), /2822 (Andrea Skant),
/2823 (Marlene Hilzensauer), /2824 (Klaudia Krammer), /2829 (Christine
Kulterer)
Email addresses: firstname.lastname at uni-klu.ac.at

>>> "Sonja Erlenkamp" <sonja.erlenkamp at hist.no> 09/03/09 7:52  >>>
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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Ivanova
Sendt: on 02.09.2009 17:42
Til: slling-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu 
Emne: [SLLING-L] Looking for foreign co-operation

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 sinǵs 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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