TISLR

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The conference series Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research is targeted specifically at the linguistic study of signed languages. Its organisation is supported by SLLS to take place every three years.

Formal name

Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research

History

The first was held in June 1986 in Rochester, New York, followed by Washington, D.C. in 1988, Boston in 1990 and San Diego, California in 1992...

Events

TISLR 10: Sep. 30 - Oct. 2, 2010, Purdue University, located close to Chicago and Indianapolis airports.

Presentations:

• Hope Morgan & Rachel Mayberry: The handshape parameter in Kenyan Sign Language
• Adam Schembri, Trevor Johnston: Signed languages and usage-based grammars: Evidence from variation in Australian Sign Language
• David McKee, Rachel McKee: Sign time-capsules: lexical variation and change in NZSL
• Sibaji Panda: Alipur village, India: The sign language and the deaf community
• Sara Lanesman & Irit Meir: The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language in Israel
• Connie de Vos: Subject and object in Kata Kolok
• Dany Adone, Anastasia Bauer, Keren Cumberbatch, Waldemar Schwager: Looking at the lexicon of Yolngu Sign Language (Northern Australia), Country Sign (Jamaica), and Kata Kolok (Bali, Indonesia)
• Gladys Tang, Prudence Lau, Jafi Lee: Strategies for relativization in HKSL
• Scholastica Lam, Gladys Tang: Input ambiguity and head directionality of TP in Hong Kong Sign Language
• Prudence Lau: Serial verb constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language
• Angela Nonaka, Victoria Nyst, Shifra Kisch: The linguistic ecology of ‘village sign languages’: methodological pitfalls and good practices
• Lindsay Ferrara: An investigation into the lexicalization of health vocabulary in Australian Sign Language (ASL)
• Irit Meir: From pidgin to creole in a sign language: The case of Israeli Sign Language
• Felix Sze: Right dislocated pronominals in Hong Kong Sign Language
• Felix Sze: Is there passive in Hong Kong Sign Language
• Okan Kubus: Relative Clauses in Turkish Sign Language (TID)
• Kadir Gokgoz: What negative polar questions can teach us about the C domain for Turkish Sign Language
• Jia He: A case study on instrument classifiers in Tianjin Sign Language
• Cat H.-M. Fung: Code-blending in Hong Kong Sign Language
• Daisuke Sasaki: A lexical comparison of sign languages in East Asia

TISLR 9: December 6th to 9th, 2006, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Presentations:

• Kinda Al-Fityani and Carol Padden: A Lexical Comparison of Sign Languages in the Arab World
• Engin Arik: Locative Constructions in Turkish Sign language (TID)
• Sung-Eun Hong: Agreement verbs in Korean Sign Language (KSL)
• David McKee, Rachel McKee, George Major: Sociolinguistic Variation in NZSL Numerals
• Rezenet Moges: Construction in Eritrean Sign Language: an Anthropological Linguistic Perspective
• Felix SZE: Is Hong Kong Sign Language a discourse-configurational language?
• Gladys TANG, Scholastica LAM, Felix SZE, Prudence LAU, Jafi LEE: Acquiring verb agreement in HKSL: Optional or obligatory?

TISLR 8: 30-Sep-2004 - 02-Oct-2004, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Presentations:

• Felix Sze: Blinks and Intonational Phrases in Hong Kong Sign Language
• Svetlana Dachkovsky: Factual and Counterfactual Conditionals in Israeli Sign Language
• Gladys Tang: Event boundedness in Hong Kong Sign Language
• Yasuhira Ichida: Head Movement and Head Position in Japanese Sign Language
• Scholastica Lam: Reconsidering Number Agreement in Hong Kong Sign Language
• Victoria Nyst: Verbs of motion in Adamorobe Sign Language
• Adam Schembri, Caroline Jones, Denis Burnham: On the lexical specification in classifier verbs of motion: evidence from Australian Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language, and non-signer's gestures
• Ying Wai Wong, Gladys Tang: Predicting Contact in Hong Kong Sign Language
• Pamela Perniss, Asli Ozyurek: How similar is the use of space across sign languages? A comparison of the use of sign space to describe space in Turkish and German Sign Language
• Jun Hui Yang: The linguistic status of finger wiggling in Chinese Sign Language interrogatives
• Dany Adone: From Home Sign to Sign Language: The Case of Mauritian Sign Language
• Pamela Perniss, Aslı Özyürek: Representations of action, motion, and location in sign space: A comparison of German (DGS) and Turkish (TİD) Sign Language narratives

TISLR 7 (TISLR 2000):July 23-27, 2000 University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Presentations:

• Hope M. Hurlbut: A Preliminary Survey of the Signed Languages of Malaysia
• Trevor Johnston: BSL, Auslan and NZSL: Three Signed Languages or One?
• Victoria Nyst and Anne Baker: The Phonology of Name Signs: a Comparison between the Sign Languages of Uganda, Mali, Adamorobe and The Netherlands
• Sze, Yim Binh Felix: Word Order of Hong Kong Sign Language

TISLR 6: Gallaudet hosts Sixth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research.

Presentations:

• Debra Aarons: The linguistic structure of South African Sign Language after apartheid
• Constanze Schmaling: ASL in northern Nigeria: Will Hausa Sign Language survive?
• Irit Meir: The analysis of two verb classes in Israeli Sign Language
• Daisuke Sasaki: Movement classification and aspectual modulation
• Jean Ann: Dialectal variation in Taiwan Sign Language: Evidence from morphology, syntax and the lexicon
• Victoria Nyst: Handshapes in Ugandan Sign Language
• Jenny Toms and Berna Hutchins: The use of role shift and topicalization in relation to discourse forms in Auslan
• Leila Monaghan: Creating standardized communication in the New Zealand Deaf community
• Michael Morgan: Tracking topic in Japanese Sign Language discourse: Index and icon
• Ulrike Zeshan: Functions of the index in IPSL
• Adam Schembri, Robert Adam, Gillian Wigglesworth, Trevor Johnston, Roz Barker and Greg Leigh: The test battery for Auslan morphology and syntax
• Dale Ogilvy: Linguistic and cognitive functions in the learning disabled deaf
• Shih-jay Tzeng: Language mode, language production rate, working memory span, and reading comprehension of Chinese deaf readers

TISLR 5: UQAM(University of Quebec at Montreal) from the 19th to the 22nd of September 1996.

Presentations:

• Trevor Johnston & Adam Schembri: Defining and profiling lexis in a sign language p; Auslan
• Jean Ann: Two types of morphemic handshapes in Taiwan Sign Language
• Ted Supalla & Yutaka Osugi: Structural analysis of gender handshapes in Japanese Sign Language (Nihon Syuwa)
• Jean Ann: Handshape assimilations in Taiwan Sign Language
• Soya Mori: JSL phonology from comparative study between JSL and ASL

TISLR 4: In San Diego, California, 1992.

TISLR 3: in Boston, 1990.

TISLR II: sponsored by the Department of Linguistics and Interpreting at Gallaudet University. The conference took place May 18-21, 1988, at Gallaudet University's Northwest Campus, and wasthe second in a series begun in Rochester, New York, in 1986.

The first Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research; University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; June 1986.

Status of sign language

Links

Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research Selected papers from TISLR 2000

Notes