My first tweet ever and it's a shameless poster plug for #tislr13 ! If you love swearing and want to know what makes a sign (more) offensive in DGS, here's a preview for our Saturday poster (3.11) tinyurl.com/yys34q9u

Tweet no. 2 for poster no. 2 at #tislr13 :) If you can't make it to our poster but are dying to know what the meaning of JA (yes) and NEIN (no) is in DGS, here's a sneak peak: tinyurl.com/yxbapb84

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! There are many different signs for "woman" in DGS (#GermanSignLanguage), their regional variation can be seen on this map of the DW-DGS: uhh.de/neofk

For those of you who know DGS: Here is a little greeting from the DGS-Korpus team in celebration of International Women's Day.

Signs for speaking, gossiping, blabbering etc. are often iconic of oral speech in ASL and NGT. This recent paper of mine discusses iconic sources of speech act verbs and what conditions them: buske.de/quite-a-mouthf…

#TISLR14 starting us off with visual poetry. Very excited to witness the first TISLR in Osaka!

Amazing #TISLR14 talk Matt Hall Matt Hall about the importance of early (before 6months) high quality ASL access for DHH kids.

Why can't we say "I like spinach at all"? Because "at all" is a Negative Polarity Item (NPI), it can only be used in negated contexts like "I don't like". Does German Sign Language have NPIs, too? Cornelia Loos and Marc Schulder @[email protected] are using the DGS Corpus to find out! #tislr14

An article I wrote with my colleagues was published in Linguistische Berichte last week! I'm so happy that we got the opportunity to highlight some of the incredible research students have completed on the DGS-Korpus data! Please find our article here: tinyurl.com/362z5yu3 🤓

Santa came early this year and dropped off our new review article on simultaneous constructions, their emergence and acquisition: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

I was recently interviewed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) about my work on German Sign Language (DGS). You can read the interview below and/or watch the video (with DGS translation). letter-daad.de/.../adventures…

Philosophers of language have been waiting 100 years for this moment.

PhD position in sign linguistics. This is such a fascinating project, I would want to do something like that myself (if I didn't have other projects ongoing).

If you've been wondering how motion across great distances or at great speed are expressed in sign languages, Donna Jo Napoli and I just published a paper on the topic in Sign Language Studies: muse.jhu.edu/article/912329