• Body-anchored verbs and argument omission in two sign languages 

      Oomen, Marloes; Kimmelman, Vadim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-26)
      Using quantitative methods, we analyze naturalistic corpus data in two sign languages, German Sign Language and Russian Sign Language, to study subject-omission patterns. We find that, in both languages, the interpretation ...
    • Transitivity prominence within and across modalities 

      Börstell, Carl; Jantunen, Tommi; Kimmelman, Vadim; De Lint, Vanja; Mesch, Johanna; Oomen, Marloes (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-31)
      We investigate transitivity prominence of verbs across signed and spoken languages, based on data from both valency dictionaries and corpora. Our methodology relies on the assumption that dictionary data and corpus-based ...