Hanne Rieser's slides on 'speech-gestures interfaces' (suggested by Insa Lawler)
• Classics
Klima, Edward and Bellugi, Ursula: 1979, The Signs of Language
• Background
Padden, C.: 2011, Sign Language Geography
List of Sign Languages [Wikipedia]
• Pronouns in sign language
Lillo-Martin, Diane and Meier, Richard: 2011. On the linguistic status of 'agreement' in sign language. Theoretical Linguistics.
Sandler, Wendy and Lillo-Martin, Diane: 2006, Pronouns. From Sign Language and Linguistic Universals.
• Temporal and Modal Anaphora
Schlenker, Philippe: to appear, Temporal and Modal Anaphora in Sign Language (ASL). To appear in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
Zucchi, Sandro: 2009, Along the time line Tense and time adverbs in Italian Sign Language, NALS.
A Classic
Partee, Barbara: 1973, Some Structural Analogies Between Tense and Pronouns in English. Journal of Philosophy 70: 601-609
More on intensional semantics
Kai von Fintel and Irene Heim's Notes on Intensional Semantics [pdf]
• Donkey Anaphora
–Donkey anaphora in sign language
Schlenker, Philippe: "Quantifiers and Variables: Insights from Sign Language (ASL and LSF)". Accepted for publication in Partee, B.H., Glanzberg, M., & Skilters, J. (eds), Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models. The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, Vol. 6, 2011. [non-technical discussion of 'donkey' anaphora and sign language]
Schlenker, Philippe: 2012, "Donkey Anaphora: the View from Sign Language (ASL and LSF)". To appear in Linguistics & Philosophy [technical discussion of 'donkey' anaphora and sign language](non-final version; last modified: February 2011)
–Dynamic semantics vs. E-type approaches
More on dynamic semantics
Barbara Partee's Lectures on Semantics and Anaphora, Moscow, 2008 (3 lectures on dynamic semantics)
Advanced:
Heim, Irene: 1982, File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definitiness
Elbourne, Paul: 2005, Situations and Individuals [pdf]
Dekker, Paul: 2004 Cases, Adverbs, Situations and Events, pages 1-5
Heim, Irene: 1990, E-type Pronouns and Donkey Anaphora. Linguistics and Philosophy 13: 137-177
Very Advanced:
Nouwen, Rick (2003) Plural Pronominal Anaphora in Context: Dynamic Aspects of Quantification, PhD-thesis, UiL-OTS, Utrecht University, No. 84 of the LOT dissertation-series. [pdf]
• Iconic Variables
Schlenker, Philippe: 2011, Iconic Agreement Theoretical Linguistics.
Schlenker, Lamberton and Santoro: 2012, Iconic Variables , Linguistics & Philosophy
Emmorey and Herzig: Gradient properties of ASL classifiers
• Role Shift
Emmorey and Reilly: 1998, The Development of Quotation and Reported Action: Conveying Perspective in ASL
Quer, J. and Frigola, S. The workings of indexicals in role shift structures in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
Pyers and Senghas: 2007, Reported action in Nicaraguan and American Sign Languages: Emerging versus established systems
Schlenker, P.: to appear. Indexicality and De Se Reports" [Survey Article]. To appear in the Handbook of Semantics edited by von Heusinger, Maienborn and Portner, Mouton de Gruyter
• Ronnie Wilbur on Verbal Classes
[1. is introductory; 2. builds on 1.]
1. Wilbur, R. B. (2003). Representations of telicity in ASL. CLS 39, 354-368.
2. Wilbur, R. B. (2008). Complex predicates involving events, time and aspect: Is this why sign languages look so similar? In J. Quer (ed.), Signs of the time: Selected papers from TISLR 2004, pp. 217-250. Hamburg: Signum Press.
3. Wilbur, R. B., Malaia, E., Shay, R. A. (In press). Degree modification and intensification in ASL adjectives. 18th Amsterdam Colloquium. Springer FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information.
4. Wilbur, R. B. (2009). Productive reduplication in ASL, a fundamentally monosyllabic language. In M. Kenstowicz (ed.), Data and Theory: Papers in Phonology in Celebration of Charles W. Kisseberth, a special issue of Language Sciences 31: 325-342.
• Semantics of pictures
Greenberg, Gabriel: Pictorial Semantics. Ms., UCLA. [pdf]
• Semantics of gestures
G. Giorgolo, A Formal Semantics for Iconic Spatial Gestures, in M. Aloni, B. Harald, T. de Jager and K. Schulz 'Logic, Language and Meaning, Springer', p. 305-314, 2010. [pdf]
Lascarides, A. and M. Stone [2009] Discourse Coherence and Gesture Interpretation, Gesture, 9(2), pp147--180, John Benjamins Publishing Company.
• Emergence of New Sign Languages
Coppola and Senghas: to appear, The emergence of deixis in Nicaraguan signing [pdf]
Senghas and Coppola: 2001, How Nicaraguan Sign Language Acquired a Spatial Grammar [pdf]
Historical Links
Note: for some of the links ['subscription'], you'll need to connect from NYU or use a proxy server so as to have access to institutional subscriptions.
• The French Deaf community before Abbé de l'Epée
A text by Deaf historian Yann Cantin [in French]
• Abbé de l'Epée
Berthier, Ferdinand: L'Abbé de l'Epée [in French]
Abbé de l'Epée, The Art of Teaching the Deaf-Mute from Birth to Speak (1820) [in French]
• Abbé Sicard
Berthier, Ferdinand: L'Abbé Sicard [in French]
• Laurent Clerc
Short biography (handspeak.com)
Short biography (Encyclopedia of American Disability History)
Laurent Clerc's Address 'Before the Governor and Both Houses of the Legislature', Connecticut, 1818
Berthier, Ferdinand: Massieu et Clerc [in French]
• Auguste Bébian
Auguste Bébian, Essay on the Deaf-Mute and Natural Language [in French]
• The Bells and oralism
Halle, Knowledge Unlearned and Untaught
• Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language" [Wikipedia]
Groce, Nora Ellen: 1985, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard
• History of ASL
Emily Shaw Yves Delaporte: 2010, New Perspectives on the History of American Sign Language [pdf]
• International Sign
Rachel Rosenstock, Emergence of a Communication System: International Sign [subscription]