Over the past decades the field of sign language linguistics has expanded considerably. Recent
research on sign languages includes a wide range of subdomains such as reference grammars
theoretical linguistics psycho- and neurolinguistics sociolinguistics and applied studies on
sign languages and Deaf communities. The SLDC series is concerned with the study of sign
languages in a comprehensive way covering various theoretical experimental and applied
dimensions of sign language research and their relationship to Deaf communities around the
world. The series provides a multidisciplinary platform for innovative and outstanding research
in sign language linguistics and aims at linking the study of sign languages to current trends
in modern linguistics such as new experimental and theoretical investigations the importance
of language endangerment the impact of technological developments on data collection and Deaf
education and the broadening geographical scope of typological sign language studies
especially in terms of research on non-Western sign languages and Deaf communities.
