Connie de Vos currently works as a post-doctoral research assistant for the EuroBABEL project on Endangered sign languages in village communities at the International institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies in Preston, UK.

Research interests

The unique contributions village sign languages - being language isolates - make to sign language typology.

The relationship between the social dynamics of signing communities and the linguistic structures of sign languages.

Frames of reference, temporal deixis, argument structure, pointing, and how these domains relate to cross-linguistic variation in the sign-spatial structures of signed languages.

Pragmatic and linguistic functions of non-manual signals in signed conversations and how these diverge from co-speech gestures of the wider hearing community.

The acquisition of typologically diverse sign languages.

Projects

INTERACT

Longitudinal Documentation of Sign Language Acquisition in a Deaf Village (ELDP Small Grant)

EuroBABEL project on Endangered sign languages in village communities

Multimodal Interaction

Language of Perception

Time in Space

Organised workshops

Workshop during the Endangered Languages Week on "Sign Language Documentation for Field Linguists" with Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur (SOAS) and Prof. Ulrike Zeshan (iSLanDS)

EuroBABEL workshop on "Kinship and Numeral systems from Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Modal Perspectives" with Prof. Ulrike Zeshan

2nd NGC Spring Workshop: Role of Gesture and Sign in Language Emergence and Evolution with Prof. Asli Ozyurek

Personal information

Email: firstname.lastname@mpi.nl

Function: PhD Student

MPI group: Language and Cognition