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Reagan, Timothy – Sign Language Studies, 2021
This article offers a brief overview of historical linguistics and explores the value of historical "sign" linguistics. The specific focus of the article is on the question of the extent to which the concept of "sign language families" is a legitimate and useful one. It is suggested that although lateral transmission and…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Diachronic Linguistics, Correlation, Language Classification
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Sprenger, Kristen; Mathur, Gaurav – Sign Language Studies, 2012
This article focuses on the syntactic level of the grammar of Saudi Arabian Sign Language by exploring some word orders that occur in personal narratives in the language. Word order is one of the main ways in which languages indicate the main syntactic roles of subjects, verbs, and objects; others are verbal agreement and nominal case morphology.…
Descriptors: Language Research, Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Word Order
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Massone, Maria Ignacia; Curiel, Monica – Sign Language Studies, 2004
This article focuses on word order - the order of constituents in the sentence - as one way in which languages establish the relationship between a verb and its arguments. The spoken languages of the world have been classified into three, major word-order types: SVO, VSO, and SOV. Greenberg' work (1963) on language typology has been a stimulus to…
Descriptors: Semantics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Sentence Structure, Language Research