ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
SignMorph aims to address two of the most fundamental questions in the language sciences: how much do the languages of the world resemble each other and how do they differ, and what factors account for both the cross-linguistic similarities and the differences? SignMorph will provide answers to these questions about the nature of human language through a focus on the sign languages of deaf communities. This project will also be the first to focus on key aspects of the grammar across three distinct subtypes of signing communities: (1) established macro-community sign languages used across an entire national deaf community, (2) established micro-community sign languages which are languages in…
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