Dietmar Roehm
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dietmar Roehm is involved.
Articles
2025 The interaction of syntax, non-manuals, and prosodic cues as potential topic markers in Austrian Sign Language Sign Language & Linguistics 28:1, pp. 1–48 | Article
Topic is often marked only by prosody across languages. In sign languages, prosody is expressed by features similar to those in speech: i.e., sign duration, velocity and amplitude of movement (cf. slope and range of pitch). Topicalized signs usually occur sentence-initially, are followed by a… read more
2017 Two agreement markers in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) Sign Language & Linguistics 20:1, pp. 27–54 | Article
For many of the sign languages studied to date, different types of agreement markers have been described which express agreement in transitive constructions involving non-inflecting (plain) verbs and sometimes even inflected agreement verbs. Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) belongs to the group of… read more