SW pushing the limits of traditional linguistics...

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
November 3, 2003

On Nov 1, 2003, at 1:44 PM, Erika Hoffmann wrote:
> Also, I was really interested in Joe Martin's paper about the manner
> in which
> signwriting pushes the limits of traditional linguistics...it made me
> wonder if
> others might take that fact as deligitimizing Signwriting, rather than
> as
> highlighting areas in which linguistic research needs to grow...?

Erika and everyone -
Joe Martin's excellent article can be downloaded on the web:

SignWriting Linguistics Forum
http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/linguistics

There is another paper too, from Italy, that discusses the fact that
linguistics, up until now, did not realize some facts that SignWriting
in Italy is now starting to reveal to researchers there...I have to get
permission to post the paper from the author and when I do I will post
it...

But yes, of course there will always be people against something that
questions the established norm, but how can positive change occur if we
don't move forward?...

Val ;-)