Diane Stoianov
List of John Benjamins publications in which Diane Stoianov is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 9. Deriving OSV order in Cena, an emerging sign language of Brazil The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 159–184 | Chapter
We discuss the word order OSV found in Cena, an emerging sign language of Brazil, in transitive clauses with two animate arguments, as found in elicited production tasks with native signers. We explain the presence of this typologically rare word order in terms of the role-conflict hypothesis… read more
2017 The phonology of handshape distribution in Maxakalí sign Sonic Signatures: Studies dedicated to John Harris, Lindsey, Geoff and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 231–262 | Chapter
We provide an analysis of the distribution of handshapes on the dominant and non-dominant hand in the incipient village sign language found in the Maxakalí community in Brazil. The most frequent handshapes reflect tendencies in choosing from the crosslinguistically unmarked set of handshapes, and… read more