Learning about the linguistic diversity of Mali - a country with about 60 languages, and a long history of multilingualism. "Even during the Ghana Empire, the ruling Soninke language wasn't imposed on others - it was just one language among others."

Available now to pre-order: new Routledge Handbook of Sign Language Translation & Interpreting with SIGNS@HWU (aka Heriot-Watt BSL team) member. Robert Adam as one of the editors routledge.com/The-Routledge-…

Our own Nia Lazarus ✨ presents her PhD work where she explores how iconicity contributes to colexification processes in two unrelated sign languages (BSL-DGS). Iconicity seems to show patterns not attested in spoken languages before #ILL13 #iconicity

Postdoctoral Research Fellow: SignMorph Project at the University of Birmingham. Applications due by 28/08/2022! Deaf applicants are particularly encouraged to apply. bham.taleo.net/careersection/…

For more information on the project: check out our website: signmorph.net

Want to understand how our ability for arbitrariness evolved? We’ll discuss perspectives from philosophy (Ron Planer), linguistics (Bodo Winter, @MarcusPerlman) and biology (Zanna Clay) in our Joint Conference on Language Evolution workshop next Monday, Sept 5th at 6:30am (CEST). More info here: 1/2

Conference on 'Deaf persons w/ experiences of language deprivation' started Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin today. In the first presentation, Dr. Agnes Villwock and Christian Rathmann gave an introduction on language deprivation and their consequences from perspectives of neurosciences and psycho-linguistics.

The first conference paper from some of us on the SignMorph project (@hlutzenberger, Marah Jaraisy and Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri)), collaborating with @fbisnath and visiting scholar Rehana Omardeen. Well done team! More coming up at #TISLR14 and #ALT2022.

Happy #IWDP2022!

Happy International Week of Deaf People 2022 from the SignMorph team (in our various signed languages)! #IWDP2022 Arjun Shrestha Marah Jaraisy Heidi Proctor @hlutzenberger

‘The structure of signing communities and lexical variation: A cross-linguistic study of three unrelated sign languages’ by Katie Mudd et al. #TISLR14 #SignMorph

Working with the Global Coalition for Language Rights (GCLR), #SignMorph has created draft BSL and IS translations of the GCLR statement on linguistic human rights. signmorph.net/languagerights Thanks to Alex and Gavin at Remark! for these translations. Feedback welcome! British Deaf Association World Federation of the Deaf

I'm delighted to officially welcome Neil Fox to the #SignMorph team! Neil will be working on BSL morphology and BSL community social networks studies. SignMorph Neil and I used to work together at DCAL and also on projects with DCAL since that time. ucl.ac.uk/dcal/people/re…

Great experience from the workshop #drdeaf and building networking. Looking forward new updates

The LAGB 2023 call for papers is now out! Featuring a special session on “Sociolinguistic typology: advances and challenges”, organized by Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) and me.

If this talk has whetted your appetite for this sort of thing, follow SignMorph SignMorph (with added morphology!). #UKLVC14

Interested in applying for a postdoc on sign language documentation, sociolinguistics and/or typology with the SignMorph team (signmorph.net)? Please get in touch with me before 5th September! (NB UK visa costs are covered by this scheme) thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdo…

What was the impact of #Covid19 on your career in UK's #research and #innovation ecosystem? We're doing a nationwide survey, and are especially interested in minoritised groups. Currently we've only 1 response identifying as #Deaf. go.hw.ac.uk/EDICa/Covid19-…