Kearsy Cormier
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kearsy Cormier is involved.
2015 Rethinking constructed action Sign Language & Linguistics 18:2, pp. 167–204 | Article
We aim to demonstrate the importance of defining linguistic phenomena by using constructed action or CA (i.e. a stretch of discourse that represents one role or combination of roles depicting actions, utterances, thought, attitudes and/or feelings of one or more referents) as an example. The… read more
2008 One hand or two? Nativisation of fingerspelling in ASL and BANZSL Sign Language & Linguistics 11:1, pp. 3–44 | Article
In this paper, we focus on the nativisation process as a fully fingerspelled word or fingerspelled letters become a fingerspelled loan or initialised sign. Previous models of nativisation (e.g., Brentari & Padden 2001) have described forms derived from one-handed fingerspelling systems; however,… read more
2006 Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages edited by Karen Emmorey, Sign Language & Linguistics 7:2, pp. 207–213 | Miscellaneous
2005 Exclusive pronouns in American Sign Language Clusivity: Typology and case studies of the inclusive–exclusive distinction, Filimonova, Elena (ed.), pp. 231–258 | Chapter