German A
Biographic Data
| ID | 1301873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | German A |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | German |
| SIGNATURE | A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0997-9409 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Conventionalization of size-and-shape specifiers in Zinacantec Family Homesign
This study examines size-and-shape specifiers (SASSes) in Zinacantec Family Homesign (‘Z sign’), an emerging sign language developed by three deaf siblings and their hearing family members in an indigenous community of Mexico. SASSes depict the visual attributes of objects via a hand configuration that portrays some aspect of the form of an entity and are considered by some scholars to incorporate both “linguistic” and “gestural” properties. The …
The impact of interaction on variation in Zinacantec Family Homesign
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Emerging sign languages provide the opportunity to observe the process by which signers create and converge on a lexicon. Some studies report that emerging sign languages exhibit more lexical and sub-lexical variation than their longer-established counterparts, which has been interpreted as evidence for a lack of conventionalization. However, a growing body of recent li…
The emergence of linguistic structure in Zinacantec Family Homesign
Metalinguistic Discourse in an Emerging Sign Language
In this paper, I explore metalinguistic discourse in Zinacantec Family Homesign ('Z sign'), an emergent sign language developed by three deaf siblings and their hearing family members. In particular, I examine how metalinguistic discourse unfolds between a hearing Z signer and various members of her family-including her deaf siblings, her elderly hearing father, and her young hearing son. I do so via a close examination of several snippets of con…
Abrupt grammatical reorganization of an emergent sign language
This study traces the development of discrete, combinatorial structure in Zinacantec Family Homesign (‘Z Sign’), a sign language developed since the 1970s by several deaf siblings in Mexico ( Haviland 2020b ), focusing on the expression of motion. The results reveal that the first signer, who generated a homesign system without access to language models, represents motion events holistically. Later-born signers, who acquired this homesign system …
Sign language socialization and participant frameworks in three indigenous Mesoamerican communities
This article provides a cross-cultural study of language socialization through sign language in three indigenous Mesoamerican communities. We explore whether child signers are socialized to use visual communicative practices as participants or observers. We present four conversations that illustrate how child signers are socialized into these practices. Child signers in our study acquire appropriate visual practices, even when they are primarily …
Ethnicity in My Life
The author, a Volga German by origin, analyzes the long history of his life and its most important stages, full of diverse events and frequent and unexpected turns. This analysis is carried out both from the perspective of changes that occurred in the author's own ethnicity under the influence of various living conditions, and taking into account the response of others to the author's ethnicity, which, depending on specific circumstances, manifes…
Grammatical Tone Patterns in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)
This paper provides the first comprehensive description and analysis of the grammatical tone patterns of Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara), a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Northern Mexico. Tone distribution in this language is dependent on stress, which is in turn governed by morphological factors. Many tonal patterns are thus predictable based on the lexical tone properties of roots and affixes. However, tone also serves a morphological role in th…
Metalinguistic Discourse in an Emerging Sign Language
In this paper, I explore metalinguistic discourse in Zinacantec Family Homesign ('Z sign'), an emergent sign language developed by three deaf siblings and their hearing family members. In particular, I examine how metalinguistic discourse unfolds between a hearing Z signer and various members of her family-including her deaf siblings, her elderly hearing father, and her young hearing son. I do so via a close examination of several snippets of con…
Grammatical Tone Patterns in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)
This paper provides the first comprehensive description and analysis of the grammatical tone patterns of Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara), a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Northern Mexico. Tone distribution in this language is dependent on stress, which is in turn governed by morphological factors. Many tonal patterns are thus predictable based on the lexical tone properties of roots and affixes. However, tone also serves a morphological role in th…
Ethnicity in My Life
The author, a Volga German by origin, analyzes the long history of his life and its most important stages, full of diverse events and frequent and unexpected turns. This analysis is carried out both from the perspective of changes that occurred in the author's own ethnicity under the influence of various living conditions, and taking into account the response of others to the author's ethnicity, which, depending on specific circumstances, manifes…
Grammatical Tone Patterns in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)
This paper provides the first comprehensive description and analysis of the grammatical tone patterns of Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara), a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Northern Mexico. Tone distribution in this language is dependent on stress, which is in turn governed by morphological factors. Many tonal patterns are thus predictable based on the lexical tone properties of roots and affixes. However, tone also serves a morphological role in th…
Abrupt grammatical reorganization of an emergent sign language
This study traces the development of discrete, combinatorial structure in Zinacantec Family Homesign (‘Z Sign’), a sign language developed since the 1970s by several deaf siblings in Mexico ( Haviland 2020b ), focusing on the expression of motion. The results reveal that the first signer, who generated a homesign system without access to language models, represents motion events holistically. Later-born signers, who acquired this homesign system …
Sign language socialization and participant frameworks in three indigenous Mesoamerican communities
This article provides a cross-cultural study of language socialization through sign language in three indigenous Mesoamerican communities. We explore whether child signers are socialized to use visual communicative practices as participants or observers. We present four conversations that illustrate how child signers are socialized into these practices. Child signers in our study acquire appropriate visual practices, even when they are primarily …
Metalinguistic Discourse in an Emerging Sign Language
In this paper, I explore metalinguistic discourse in Zinacantec Family Homesign ('Z sign'), an emergent sign language developed by three deaf siblings and their hearing family members. In particular, I examine how metalinguistic discourse unfolds between a hearing Z signer and various members of her family-including her deaf siblings, her elderly hearing father, and her young hearing son. I do so via a close examination of several snippets of con…
The impact of interaction on variation in Zinacantec Family Homesign
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Emerging sign languages provide the opportunity to observe the process by which signers create and converge on a lexicon. Some studies report that emerging sign languages exhibit more lexical and sub-lexical variation than their longer-established counterparts, which has been interpreted as evidence for a lack of conventionalization. However, a growing body of recent li…
The emergence of linguistic structure in Zinacantec Family Homesign
Conventionalization of size-and-shape specifiers in Zinacantec Family Homesign
This study examines size-and-shape specifiers (SASSes) in Zinacantec Family Homesign (‘Z sign’), an emerging sign language developed by three deaf siblings and their hearing family members in an indigenous community of Mexico. SASSes depict the visual attributes of objects via a hand configuration that portrays some aspect of the form of an entity and are considered by some scholars to incorporate both “linguistic” and “gestural” properties. The …
Linguistics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sign language (4 works) · Communication (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · American Sign Language (2 works)