Sign Language Research @ Radboud University Nijmegen

Mini-conference on sign language research

Tuesday July 13, 2004; Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Organizers: Els van der Kooij & Onno Crasborn


Location

All talks will take place in room 2 of Thomas van Aquinostraat 1, on the campus of Nijmegen University. This building is located on the south side of the campus, just by the Humanities building (Erasmusgebouw, 20 floors high) and the university restaurant (where you can get warm and cold meals during the lunch break). See also the map of Nijmegen and the campus map.

To get to the Nijmegen campus by public transport, you can best take the train to Nijmegen central station, and then take bus 11 to the Erasmusgebouw, or bus 25 to the University Library (Universiteitsbibliotheek).

Interpreting

All talks will be interpreted to NGT (Nederlandse Gebarentaal) and International Sign. If you would like to bring your own interpreters, please contact us beforehand.

Programme

Time Presenter Title
10:00 - 10:30 Asli Özyürek & Pamela Perniss Number quantification and space in Turkish and German Sign Languages
10:30 - 11:00 Waldemar Schwager Sign language contact
11:00 - 11:30 Break Coffee, tea & stroopwafels
11:30 - 12:00 Wendy Sandler On the roles of innateness, culture, and time in language genesis
12:00 - 12:30 Ulrike Zeshan Possession in sign languages: A typological pilot study from China, Turkey, India, Korea, Russia, and Germany
12:30 - 14:00 Break Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Marit Vogt-Svendsen Buoys in Norwegian Sign Language
14:30 - 15:00 Kang Suk Byun Gender marking in South Korean Sign Language
15:00 - 15:30 Roland Pfau Exploring modality-independent and modality-specific aspects of grammaticalization
15:30 - 16:15 Break Tea, coffee, and more stroopwafels
16:15 - 16:45 Victoria Nyst Iconicity in Adamrobe Sign Language
16:45 - 17:15 Ronnie Wilbur The Event Visibility Hypothesis: a proposal for sign language morphology

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