Activities

Conferences

We co-founded FEAST, an international conference on formal and experimental approaches to sign language.

Workshops:

• • SLI 2016 Workshop on Subordination

  • SLI 2019 Workshop

International Partnerships

Our group (together with Eric Lawrin) is a member of the European COST project IS 1006 SignGram: “Unraveling the grammars of European sign languages: pathways to full citizenship of deaf signers and to the protection of their linguistic heritage” (Chair: Josep Quer, ICREA, Barcelona)

Courses

Since 2013, we have offered a yearly course on sign language linguistics at the ENS, entitled Language in the Visual Modality.

Summer school courses:

• • COST 2014

  • ESSLLI 2015, The meaning of space: New advances in sign language semantics

  • NASSLLI 2016, New advances in sign language semantics

  • LSKLS 2018, Sign language linguistics

  • LSA 2019, Language in the visual modality

Mirko Santoro has taught a series of linguistics courses in LIS for the Italian Deaf community.

Seminars

Several sign language talks are featured every semester as part of the weekly LINGUAE seminar. A record of past seminar speakers is available here.