Dea Hunsicker

List of John Benjamins publications in which Dea Hunsicker is involved.

Articles

Hunsicker, Dea and Susan Goldin-Meadow 2015 How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign Where do nouns come from?, Haviland, John B. (ed.), pp. 111–133 | Article

All established languages, spoken or signed, make a distinction between nouns and verbs. Even a young sign language emerging within a family of deaf individuals has been found to mark the noun-verb distinction, and to use handshape type to do so. Here we ask whether handshape type is used to mark… read more

Hunsicker, Dea and Susan Goldin-Meadow 2013 How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign Where do nouns come from?, Haviland, John B. (ed.), pp. 354–376 | Article

All established languages, spoken or signed, make a distinction between nouns and verbs. Even a young sign language emerging within a family of deaf individuals has been found to mark the noun-verb distinction, and to use handshape type to do so. Here we ask whether handshape type is used to mark… read more