Adamorobe, a small Akan village in Ghana, has an unusually high incidence of hereditary deafness. As a result, a sign language came into being, Adamorobe Sign L

This book presents the first ever comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign languages, the impacts they have and the advocacy campaigns which led

Recent research on the syntax of signed language has revealed that, apart from some modality-specific differences, signed languages are organized according to t

Selected papers from the conference held in Washington DC, July 9-14, 1989.