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

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

Explores current efforts to record, collect and archive endangered languages which are in danger of falling silent.

The time has come for a new in-depth encyclopedic collection of entries defining the current state of Deaf Studies at an international level using critical and

The handbook provides a thorough survey of the languages pertaining to the Mesoamerican culture region, including a wealth of new research on synchronic structu