Looking for foreign co-operation

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SignWriting List
September 3, 2009

Hello Nedelina!

Welcome to the SignWriting List, and thank you for describing your  
project so well below. I hope you find others to work with, on your  
project. It sounds fascinating....There are linguists on this List  
too, so hopefully someone will be interested...

If you would enjoy writing the signs in your Icelandic Sign Language  
Dictionary project in SignWriting, I can create a free place for you  
online, to start writing signs...It is called SignPuddle:

SignPuddle Online
http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle

If you go there, you will see a bunch of flags. Click on a flag to see  
some of the dictionaries already created online...For example, visit  
Germany, or the US, or French-Switzerland, to see some larger  
databases..

At the moment we do not have a SignPuddle area for Iceland, but I will  
be happy to create it if you want...write again to tell me if you want  
to start writing Icelandic signs in SignPuddle...

We also have private web puddles, and SignPuddle desktop software,  
although most people work online...

Ask questions here on the List any time - and best of luck with your  
project -

Val ;-)

Valerie Sutton
Sutton at SignWriting.org

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