Oksana Tkachman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Oksana Tkachman is involved.
Articles
2020 Measuring lexical and structural conventionalization in young sign languages Special Issue in Memory of Irit Meir, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Wendy Sandler, Marie Coppola and Rose Stamp (eds.), pp. 208–232 | Article
Compounding, as a nearly universal word-formation process that is very useful in emerging languages, might be expected to conventionalize early in a language’s history. However, a recent study focusing on novel compounding in ISL and ABSL found that this may not be the case, and moreover, that… read more
2015 The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages Where do nouns come from?, Haviland, John B. (ed.), pp. 9–41 | Article
Many sign languages have semantically related noun-verb pairs, such as ‘hairbrush/brush-hair’, which are similar in form due to iconicity. Researchers studying this phenomenon in sign languages have found that the two are distinguished by subtle differences, for example, in type of movement. Here… read more
2013 The noun–verb distinction in two young sign languages Where do nouns come from?, Haviland, John B. (ed.), pp. 253–286 | Article
Many sign languages have semantically related noun-verb pairs, such as ‘hairbrush/brush-hair’, which are similar in form due to iconicity. Researchers studying this phenomenon in sign languages have found that the two are distinguished by subtle differences, for example, in type of movement. Here… read more