Emmorey, K. (2003). Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Langauges. Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates: Mahwah, NJ

Table of Contents

• Rethinking 'Classifiers' in Signed Languages
  Adam Schembri
• Noun and Verbal Classifiers in Swedish Sign Language
  Brita Bergman and Lars Wallin
• Classifier Constructions and Morphology in Two Sign Languages
  Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir, Carol Padden, and Wendy Sandler
• Commentary
• Classifiers in Spoken and in Signed Languages: How to Know More
  Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
• Classifier Systems in the Context of a Typology of Nominal Classification
  Colette Grinevald

Part II: Cross-Linguistic Variation in Classifier Constructions and Spatial Language

• "Classificatory" Constructions in Indo-Pakistani Sign Language: Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Processes
  Ulrike Zeshan
• Verbs of Motion and Location in Hong Kong Sign Language: Conflation and Lexicalization
  Gladys Tang
• Commentary
• The Representation of Spatial Structure in Spoken and Signed Language
  Leonard Talmy

Part III: Classifier Constructions and Gesture

• Sources of Meaning in ASL Classifier Predicates
  Scott Liddell
• Categorical Versus Gradient Properties of Classifier Constructions in ASL
  Karen Emmorey and Melissa Herzig
• Commentary
• Revisiting Visual Analogy in ASL Classifier Predicates
  Ted Supalla
• Gesture in Language: Issues for Sign Language Research
  Susan Duncan

• A Cognitive/Functional Perspective on the Acquisition of "classifiers"
  Dan I. Slobin, Nini Hoiting, Marlon Kuntze, Reyna Lindert, Amy Weinberg, Jennie Pyers, Michelle Anthony, Yael Biederman, and Helen Thumann
• The Development of Reference Switching Encoded Through Body Classifiers in British Sign Language
  Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll
• How Composite is a Fall? Adults’ and Childrens' Descriptions of Different Types of Falls in Danish Sign Language
  Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen