In this book, an Australian Aboriginal sign language used by Indigenous people in the North East Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) is described on the level of s

Although a number of edited collections deal with either the languages of the world or the languages of particular regions or genetic families, only a few cover

Language use is fundamentally multimodal. Speakers use their hands to point to locations, to represent content and to comment on ongoing talk; they position the

This volume is the first to bring together researchers studying a range of different types of emerging sign languages in the Americas, and their relationship to

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research methods used in field linguistics. Designed to teach students how to