Participating in Conferences and Seminars

China’s 13th International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Date: 22/10/2010 - 23/10/2010

The centre presented one invited talk and seven papers on Hong Kong Sign Language at the conference.
Invited talk:

• "Acquisition of classifier predicates in Hong Kong Sign Language by Deaf Children: the mapping of arguments to grammatical relations"

Seminar presentations:

• "Comparing basic constituent orders of Hong Kong Sign Language and Sri Lanka sign language"
• "Right dislocated pronominals in Hong Kong Sign Language"
• "A feature tree of movement in Hong Kong Sign Language"
• "Compounds in Hong Kong Sign Language"
• "Code-blending of a native Deaf signer in Hong Kong Sign Language"
• "Child acquisition of verb argument structure in Hong Kong Sign Language"
• "A case study on instrumental classifiers in Tianjin sign language (TJSL)"