Austin German
List of John Benjamins publications in which Austin German is involved.
Articles
2025 The emergence of linguistic structure in Zinacantec Family Homesign Sign Language & Linguistics 28:1, pp. 163–171 | Abstract
2024 Abrupt grammatical reorganization of an emergent sign language: The expression of motion in Zinacantec Family Homesign Thematic issue: Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages, pp. 171–202 | Article
This study traces the development of discrete, combinatorial structure in Zinacantec Family Homesign (‘Z Sign’), a sign language developed since the 1970s by several deaf siblings in Mexico (Haviland 2020b), focusing on the expression of motion. The results reveal that the first signer, who… read more