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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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Healy, Christina – Sign Language Studies, 2011
Mongolian Sign Language (MSL) is a visual-gestural language that developed from multiple languages interacting as a result of both geographic proximity and political relations and of the natural development of a communication system by deaf community members. Similar to the phonological systems of other signed languages, MSL combines handshapes,…
Descriptors: Phonology, Morphemes, Sign Language, Deafness
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Geer, Leah – Sign Language Studies, 2011
Information and research on Mongolian Sign Language is scant. To date, only one dictionary is available in the United States (Badnaa and Boll 1995), and even that dictionary presents only a subset of the signs employed in Mongolia. The present study describes the kinship system used in Mongolian Sign Language (MSL) based on data elicited from…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Family Relationship, Foreign Countries, Russian