Recent & Upcoming Talks

2022

Poster at the Linguistic Society of America

Poster at the Linguistic Society of America

Presentation at the Linguistic Society of America

2021

Colloquium talk

An overview of the state-of-the-art in historical comparative sign research, including the field’s main challenges, followed by …

2019

A talk about the emergence of a signed language in Tajikistan in the 1940s.

A poster describing a pilot project that applies the comparative method to a putative family of sign languages.

2018

A talk discussing reasons why sign researchers have been unable to identify regular correspondences, followed by suggestions for future …

2017

Historical analysis of two Central Asian sign languages using phylogenetic mthods

2015

A Peircean analysis of iconicity’s role in the manual alphabet and initialized signs

Poster presenting a phonological analysis of handshapes in Afghan Sign Language