Ted Supalla
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ted Supalla is involved.
2024 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 41:5, pp. 719–731 | Editorial
2013 The role of historical research in building a model of Sign Language typology, variation, and change Historical Linguistics 2011: Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011, Kikusawa, Ritsuko and Lawrence A. Reid (eds.), pp. 15–42 | Article
It has frequently been claimed that a synthetic typology is a hallmark of sign language. However, this view is challenged by our historical reconstruction of early forms and subsequent changes in the expression of negation and gendered kinship in American Sign Language. Early rule-governed phrases… read more
2001 Making historical sign language materials accessible: A prototype database of early ASL Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information, Bergman, Brita, Penny Boyes Braem, Thomas Hanke and Elena Antinoro Pizzuto (eds.), pp. 285–297 | Article
In the last few years we have begun developing a database for studying the history of American Sign Language (ASL), and more generally as a prototype for making historical and contemporary sign language materials accessible to a variety of users. Our prototype began with a set of films, produced… read more
