Looking for foreign co-operation

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 11, 2009

Hello Nedelina and Everyone!

I have created a new SignPuddle Online Dictionary for Icelandic Sign  
Language:

Icelandic SignPuddle
http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=3&sgn=0&sgn=131

with Norwegian interface at the moment ;-))

Of course I know that Icelandic and Norwegian are different spoken and  
signed languages, but I know I can read some Norwegian because I once  
spoke Danish, so I am hoping the Norwegian interface is welcome in  
Iceland as well...

If not, we can change the interface back to English, or create one in  
Icelandic someday...

Tell us how it goes, Nedelina...we are happy to help teach you how to  
use SignPuddle, and how to write SignWriting too, so feel free to ask  
questions anytime -

Best of luck with your interesting work...and keep us informed...

Val ;-)

Valerie Sutton
Sutton at SignWriting.org

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On Sep 3, 2009, at 3:25 AM, Nedelina Ivanova wrote:

>
> 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. I  
> graduaded last autum from Univeristy of Iceland with a master degree  
> in Icelandic lingustics. My M.A. thesis was on a purpose for  
> SLDictionary making for Icelandic SL on linguistic principals (the  
> last two words do not say much but they sound so well ...). it was  
> extreamly dificult to write it but it was fun. I started working at  
> The centre for deaf and hard of hearing in august 2009. I got a  
> grant for six months from the Icelandic salary found of authors of  
> science works to work on a project for SLDictionary. The project  
> started and it is going well, so far at least. We are on very early  
> stage of it.
>  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 you all 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
>
>
>
> -- 
> Nedelina Ivanova
> Sign language researcher
>
> The Communication Centre for The Deaf and Hard of Hearing
> Sudurlandsbraut 12
> 108 Reykjavik
> Iceland
>
> www.shh.is
>
>
>
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