Sign language corpus linguistics: taking stock of an emerging discipline / Ella Wehrmeyer -- Advances in sign language linguistics. Negative concord in sign language of the Netherlands: a journey through a corpus / Cindy van Boven, Marloes Oomen, Roland Pfau and Lotte Rusch -- Exploring sign-writing contact and multilingualism in the Norwegian deaf community / Lindsay Ferrara, Benjamin Anible and Lena Mei Kalvenes Anda -- Suntactic functions of nonmanials in Russian Sign Language / Svetlana Burkova, Evgeniia Khristoforova and Vadim Kimmelman -- A corpus-based analysis of coordinate structures in Libras / Ronice Mùˆller de Quadros, Jair Barbosa da Silva and Rodrigo Nogueira Machado -- Verb classes in South African Sign Language: a corpus-driven approach / Ella Wehrmeyer -- Exploring regional variation in the DGS corpus / Thomas Hanke, Reiner Konrad and Gabriele Langer -- Studying microdiachronic change with the Catalan Sign Language corpus: A case study on anaphoric chains in narratives -- Advances in sign language corpus construction. Creating a multifaceted corpus of Swedish Sign Language: visual, tactile, and L2 signing / Johanna Mesch -- Overview of and epistemological conditions for building and using LSF corpora / Marie-Anne Sallandre and Brigitte Garcia -- W(h)ither the ASL corpus? Considering trends in signed corpus development / Julie A. Hochgesang, Ryan Lepic and Emily Shaw -- Developing an inventory of handshapes, locations, and movements in Hong Kong Sign Language / Gladys Tang, Joe Mak, Ka Yiu Cheng and Felix Sze -- Utterance unit annotation for the Japanese Sign Language dialogue corpus: towards a method for detecting interactional boundaries in spontaneous sign language dialogue / Mayumi Bono, Tomohiro Okada, Kouhei Kikuchi, Rui Sakaida, Victor Skobov, Yusuke Miyao and Yutaka Osugi.
Summary:
"This collected volume showcases cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of sign language corpus linguistics in various sign language contexts across the globe. Each chapter provides a detailed account of particular national corpora and methodological considerations in their construction. Part 1 focuses on corpus-based linguistic findings, covering aspects of morphology, syntax, multilingualism, and regional and diachronic variation. Part 2 explores innovating solutions to challenges in building and annotating sign language corpora, touching on the construction of comparable sign language corpora, collaboration challenges at national level, phonological arrangement of digital lexicons, and (semi-)automatic annotation. This unique volume documenting the growth in breadth and depth within the discipline of sign language corpus linguistics is a key resource for researchers, teachers and postgraduate students in the field of sign language linguistics, and will also provide valuable insights for other researchers interested in corpus linguistics, construction grammar, and gesture studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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