Sign Language Linguistics - Exploring BSL and ASL

About the author

Adam Schembri is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published over fifty journal articles and book chapters, co-authored two books, is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and is currently the project director of the European Research Council SignMorph project.Trevor Johnston was Professor of Linguistics at Macquarie University (Sydney) before retiring in 2015. He has published several dictionaries of Auslan, journal articles and book chapters on Auslan grammar and corpus linguistics and co-authored a book on sign language linguistics. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.Jordan Fenlon is a deaf linguist who completed his Ph.D. at University College London in 2010. He has taught linguistics at University College London, Gallaudet University, University of Chicago, and Heriot-Watt University, and his research focuses on the sociolinguistics of signed languages.Kearsy Cormier is Professor of Sign Linguistics and Director of the Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre within the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London. She has an international reputation for her research on British and American Sign Languages and has over 25 years' experience teaching sign language linguistics.

Product details

• Authors: Cormier Kearsy, Jordan Fenlon, Johnston Trevor, Schembri Adam
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.03.2026
• EAN: 9781107077140
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07714-0
• Weight: 500 g
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language, Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication, Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication, For undergraduate education and equivalents, Sign / Signed languages, Textbook, coursework