Presentations
Recent presentations
Bisnath, F., Jaraisy, M., Lutzenberger, H., Omardeen, R. & Schembri. A. (2022). Deconstruction notions of morphological 'complexity': Lessons from signed and spoken languages. Workshop on Linguistic Typology and Diversity: Theory, Methods, and Ethics in Sign Language Typology. 14th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Texas, USA.
Bisnath, F., Jaraisy, M., Lutzenberger, H., Omardeen, R. & Schembri, A. (2022). Deconstructing notions of morphological 'complexity'. Poster presentation at the Workshop on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Language Evolution, Joint Conference on Language Evolution, Kanazawa, Japan.
Lutzenberger, H., Mudd, K., Schembri, A., Ohanin, R. & Stamp, R. (2022) The social structure of signing communities and lexical variation: A cross-linguistic comparison of three unrelated sign languages. 14th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Osaka, Japan.
Schembri. A. (2021). How I applied for an ERC Advanced Grant. Presentation at the ERC Workshop, University of Birmingham.
Schembri, A. & Cooperrider, K. (2020). Gesture versus sign: Moving beyond the binary. 14th Biennial Conference of the High Desert Linguistics Society.
Schembri, A. (2020). Usage-based grammar and sociolinguistics: Evidence from sign languages. UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Birmingham.
Schembri, A. (2020). On the 'paradox' of sign language morphology (slides) (video: English with BSL, ASL, and Libras interpretation). Abralin Ao Vivo/Linguists Online series.
Fenlon, J., Adam, R., Cormier, K., Hodge, G., Rowley, K. & Schembri, A. (2019). BSL linguistics and BSL teaching: Realigning the two fields. Bridging the Gap 6: Deaf People's Rights, University of South Wales.
Hodge, G., Schembri, A., Johnston, T. & K. Cormier. (2019). Semiotic diversity in signed utterances: Evidence from conversations in the British Sign Language Corpus. 6th European and 9th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication. University of Leuven, Belgium.
Hodge, G., Fenlon, J., Schembri, A., Johnston, T. & K. Cormier. (2019). A corpus-based investigation of how deaf signers signal questions during conversation. 13th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, University of Hamburg.
Schembri, A. (2019). 'Making visual languages visible: Data and methods transparency in sign language linguistics'. 13th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, University of Hamburg.
Schembri, A. & Fenlon, J. (2019). 'Making identity visible: In search of regional accents in sign languages'. Twelfth UK Language Variation and Change conference (UKLVC 12), Queen Mary University, London.
Hodge, G., Fenlon, J., Schembri, A., Johnston, T. & K. Cormier. (2018). Negation in British Sign Language and Auslan: same or different? The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Sheffield.
Schembri, A. (2018) Indicating verbs and cognition-to-form mapping: Pointing away from 'agreement' and back again? Sign CAFE 1: The first international workshop on cognitive and functional explorations in sign language linguistics, University of Birmingham.
Schembri, A., Johnston, T., & van Roekel, J. (2015). Mouthing as grammatical code-blending in Auslan (Australian Sign Language). NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) 44, University of Toronto.
Workshops
From Practice To Theory: The Linguistics of Auslan (workshop delivered in Auslan in Melbourne, 2018). https://vimeo.com/312845563
Online resources
2016 University of Birmingham (my research interests): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYNfm_ZDWSQ
2010 University College London mini-lecture: 'The truth about British Sign Language' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCXAUATESfE