a Linguistics of ASL question -- grammar

[Adam C Schembri]

Well done, Erin, Kevin and Terry! Very pleased to hear/read it.
Best,
Adam

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> Erin Wilkinson, Kevin Russell and I at the University of Manitoba recently
> applied for and received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
> of Canada (SSHRC) grant to begin developing a corpus of ASL in Canada.
> This
> grant covers a two-year pilot project to record ASL use in a range of
> genres
> including conversation. The corpus is to be an open corpus for which we
> expect to have available on a website. We'd like to do at least a basic
> annotation on the data. Terry
>
>
> On 11-03-07 4:27 AM, "Kearsy Cormier" <k.cormier at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Amen, Dan! ASL really does need a corpus to help address questions such
>> as
>> these. We are hoping to begin syntactic analyses of the BSL corpus
>> within the
>> next year or two (depending on when we get further funding).
>> -Kearsy
>
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