• Argument Structure of Classifier Predicates : Canonical and Non-canonical Mappings in Four Sign Languages 

      Kimmelman, Vadim; De Lint, Vanja; De Vos, Connie; Oomen, Marloes; Pfau, Roland; Vink, Lianne; Aboh, Enoch (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-08)
      We analyze argument structure of whole-entity and handling classifier predicates in four sign languages (Russian Sign Language, Sign Language of the Netherlands, German Sign Language, and Kata Kolok) using parallel datasets ...
    • 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 ...