Le Guen Olivier, Safar Josefina. Emerging Sign Languages of the Americas

Mouton De Gruyter, 2020. — 350 p. — (Sign Language Typology 9).This volume is the first to bring together researchers studying a range of different types of emerging sign languages in the Americas, and their relationship to the gestures produced in the surrounding communities of hearing individuals.Olivier Le Guen, Marie Coppola and Josefina Safar - Introduction: How Emerging Sign Languages in the Americas contributes to the study of linguistics and (emerging) sign languagesPart I: Emerging sign languages of the Americas. Descriptions and analysis
John Haviland - Signs, interaction, coordination, and gaze: interactive foundations of “Z”—an emerging (sign) language from Chiapas, Mexico
Laura Horton - Representational strategies in shared homesign systems from Nebaj, Guatemala
Josefina Safar and Rodrigo Petatillo Chan - Strategies of noun-verb distinction in Yucatec Maya Sign Languages
Emmanuella Martinod, Brigitte Garcia and Ivani Fusellier - A typological perspective on the meaningful handshapes in the emerging sign languages on Marajó Island (Brazil)
Ben Braithwaite - Emerging sign languages in the Caribbean
Olivier Le Guen, Rebeca Petatillo and Rita (Rossy) Kinil Canché - Yucatec Maya multimodal interaction as the basis for Yucatec Maya Sign Language
Marie Coppola - Gestures, homesign, sign language: Cultural and social factors driving lexical conventionalizationPart II: Sociolinguistic sketches
John B. Haviland - Zinacantec family homesign (or “Z”)
Laura Horton - A sociolinguistic sketch of deaf individuals and families from Nebaj, Guatemala
Josefina Safar and Olivier Le Guen - Yucatec Maya Sign Language(s): A sociolinguistic overview
Emmanuella Martinod, Brigitte Garcia and Ivani Fusellier - Sign Languages on Marajó Island (Brazil)
Ben Braithwaite - Sociolinguistic sketch of Providence Island Sign Language
Kristian Ali and Ben Braithwaite - Bay Islands Sign Language: A Sociolinguistic Sketch
Marie Coppola - Sociolinguistic sketch: Nicaraguan Sign Language and Homesign Systems in Nicaragua