Waldemar Schwager

List of John Benjamins publications in which Waldemar Schwager is involved.

Articles

Schwager, Waldemar and Ulrike Zeshan 2010 Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications Parts of Speech: Empirical and theoretical advances, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 5–41 | Article

Schwager, Waldemar and Ulrike Zeshan 2008 Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications Parts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 509–545 | Article

The topic of word classes remains curiously under-represented in the sign language literature due to many theoretical and methodological problems in sign linguistics. This article focuses on language-specific classifications of signs into word classes in two different sign languages: German Sign… read more