Victoria Nyst
List of John Benjamins publications in which Victoria Nyst is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1568-1475 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9773
2024 Mother left, Father right: Artificial signs and diachronic change in sign language dialects in Belgium and the Netherlands Thematic issue: Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages, pp. 251–298 | Article
Studies of diachronic change in sign languages are only available for a small number of sign languages, in part due to the scarcity of historical resources for sign languages. This article presents the first study of diachronic change in Nederlandse Gebarentaal ‘Dutch Sign Language’ (NGT) and… read more
2019 The impact of cross-linguistic variation in gesture on sign language phonology and morphology: The case of size and shape specifiers Anthropology of Gesture, Brookes, Heather and Olivier Le Guen (eds.), pp. 343–369 | Article
A considerable body of literature points at parallels between gestural elements and sign language structures. This raises the question to what extent variation in gesture environment may lead to related variation across sign languages, or, mutatis mutandis, to what extent similarities in gesture… read more
2018 Cross-linguistic variation in space-based distance for size depiction in the lexicons of six sign languages Impersonal human reference in Sign Languages, Barberà, Gemma and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (eds.), pp. 349–378 | Article
This paper presents a semiotic study of the distribution of a type of size depiction in lexical signs in six sign languages. Recently, a growing number of studies are focusing on the distribution of two representation techniques, i.e. the use of entity handshapes and handling handshapes for the… read more
2016 The depiction of size and shape in gestures accompanying object descriptions in Anyi (Côte d’Ivoire) and in Dutch (The Netherlands) Gesture 15:2, pp. 156–191 | Article
A comparison of size gestures made during object descriptions by Anyi speakers from the Ivory Coast and Dutch speakers in the Netherlands reveals considerable formational differences. Firstly, whereas all Anyi speakers make use of body parts to depict size and shape, none of the Dutch speakers do. read more
2007 Simultaneous Constructions in Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana) Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and function, Vermeerbergen, Myriam, Lorraine Leeson and Onno A. Crasborn (eds.), pp. 127–145 | Article