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Books

Schembri, A., Fenlon, J., Cormier, K., & Johnston, T. (forthcoming). An introduction to sign language linguistics: British Sign Language and American Sign Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Schembri, A. & Lucas, C. (Eds.), (2015). Sociolinguistics and Deaf communities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Johnston, T. & Schembri, A. (2007). Australian Sign Language (Auslan): An introduction to sign language linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  

Journal articles and book chapters

Willoughby, L., Kruk, J. & Schembri, A. (in prep) Sign language for all? Profile and retention of students in a beginner sign language program.

Sandow, R., Grieve, J., Stamp, R. & Schembri, A. (submitted) Lexical variation and change: Integrating lexis into variationist sociolinguistics.

Börstell, C., Schembri, A. & Crasborn, O. (submitted). Signing rate across three sign languages. 

Bisnath, F., Lutzenberger, H., Omardeen, R., Jaraisy, M. & Schembri, A. (submitted). Deconstructing notions of morphological 'complexity': Lessons from creoles and sign languages. 

Hodge, G., Winter, B., Schembri, A. & Cormier, K. (under revision). BSL signers combine different semiotic strategies to signal clause negation. 

Schembri, A. & Palfreyman, N. (under revision). Sign languages. In Yoshiyuki, A., D'Arcy, A. & Kerswill, P. (Eds.),  Routledge Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics. New York/London: Routledge.

Schembri, A., Rowley, K. & Leeson, L. (accepted). Sign languages in Britain and Ireland. In Fox, S. (Ed.), Language in Britain and Ireland (Third edition). Cambridge University Press.

Lutzenberger, H., Mudd, K., Stamp, R. & Schembri, A. (2023). The social structure of signing communities and lexical variation: A cross-linguistic comparison of three unrelated sign languages. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 8(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10229

Schembri, A. & Cormier, K. (2022) Sign language corpora: Future directions. In Hochgesang, J. & Fenlon, J. (eds.),Signed language corpora. Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press.

Palfreyman, N. & Schembri, A. (2022) Lumping and splitting: Sign language delineation and ideologies of linguistic differentiation. In Kusters, A. & Lucas, C. (Eds.), Dialogues: Sign language sociolinguistics. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 

Raičević Bajić , D., Vermeerbergen, M., Schembri, A. ,& van Herreweghe, M. (2021). Constituent order in Serbian Sign Language declarative clauses. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 7(1), 39.  doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1357

Hodge, G., Sekine, K., Schembri, A., & Johnston, T. (2019). Comparing signers and speakers: Building a directly comparable corpus of Auslan and Australian English. Corpora 14(1), 63-76. 

Schembri, A., Cormier, K., & Fenlon, J. (2018). Indicating verbs as typologically unique constructions: Reconsidering verb ‘agreement’ in sign languages. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 3(1), 89. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.468

Fenlon, J., Schembri, A. & Cormier, K. (2018). Modification of indicating verbs in British Sign Language: A corpus-based study. Language, 94(1),  84-118. Summary in BSL. 

Schembri, A., Stamp, R., Fenlon, J. & Cormier, K. (2018) Variation and change in varieties of British Sign Language in England. In: N. Braber & S. Jansen (Eds.), Sociolinguistics in England. Palgrave Macmillian. 

Schembri, A., Fenlon, J., Cormier, K. & Johnston, T. (2018). Sociolinguistic typology and sign languages. Frontiers in Psychology 9, 200.

Stamp, R., Schembri, A., Evans, B. & Cormier, K. (2016). British Sign Language (BSL) regional varieties in contact: Investigating the patterns of accommodation and language change. Journal of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education 21(1), 70-82.

Cormier, K., Fenlon, J. & Schembri, A. (2015). Indicating verbs in British Sign Language favour use of motivated space. Open Linguistics 1, 684-707.

Fenlon, J., Cormier, K. & Schembri, A. (2015). Building BSL SignBank: The lemma dilemma revisited. International Journal of Lexicography 28(2), 169-206.

Johnston, T., Cresdee, D., Schembri, A. & Woll, B. (2015). FINISH variation and grammaticalization in a signed language: How far down this well-trodden pathway is Auslan (Australian Sign Language)? Language Variation and Change 27(1), 117-155. 

Johnston, T., van Roekel, J. & Schembri, A. (2015). On the conventionalization of mouth actions in Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Language and Speech 58(1), 315-339.

Stamp, R., Schembri, A., Fenlon, J. & Rentelis, R. (2015). Variation and change in British Sign Language number signs. Sign Language Studies 15 (2), 151-181.

Bayley, R., Lucas, C. & Schembri, A. (2015). Variation and change in sign languages. In Schembri, A. & Lucas, C. (Eds.), Sociolinguistics and Deaf communities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fenlon, J., Schembri, A., Johnston, T. & Cormier, K. (2015). Documentary and corpus approaches to sign language research. In: E. Orfanidou, B. Woll & G. Morgan (Eds.), Research Methods in Sign Language Studies: A Practical Guide (pp. 156-172). Wiley-Blackwell.

Green, J., Kelly, B. & Schembri, A. (2014). Finding common ground: Sign language and gesture research in Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 34(2), 185-192. 

Stamp, R., Schembri, A., Fenlon, J. & Rentelis, R., Woll, B. & Cormier, K. (2014). Lexical variation and change in British Sign Language. PLoS ONE9(4): e94053.  

Fenlon, J., Schembri, A., Rentelis, R., Vinson, D. & Cormier, K. (2014). Using conversational data to determine lexical frequency in British Sign Language: The influence of text type. Lingua 143, 187-202.

Cormier, K., Schembri, A., & Woll, B. (2013). Pronouns and pointing: where do sign languages fit?  Lingua 137, 230-247.

Schembri, A., Fenlon, F., Rentelis, R., Reynolds, S. & Cormier, K. (2013). Building the British Sign Language Corpus. Language Documentation and Conservation 7, 136-154.

Fenlon, J., Schembri, A., Rentelis, R., & Cormier, K. (2013). Variation in handshape and orientation in British Sign Language: The case of the ‘1’ hand configuration. Language and Communication 33(1), 69-91.

Schembri, A. & Johnston, T. (2013). Sociolinguistic variation and change in sign languages. In: R. Bayley, R. Cameron & C. Lucas (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics (pp. 503-524). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Johnston, T. & Schembri, A. (2013). Corpus analysis of sign languages. In: C.A. Chapelle (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (pp. 479-501). Wiley-Blackwell.

Cormier, K., Schembri, A., Vinson, D., & Orfanidou, E. (2012). First language acquisition differs from second language acquisition in prelingually deaf signers: Evidence from the grammatical processing of British Sign Language. Cognition 124(1), 50-65.

Cormier, K., Quinto-Pozos, D., Sevcikova, Z. & Schembri, A.(2012). Lexicalisation and de-lexicalisation processes in sign languages: Comparing depicting constructions and viewpoint gestures. Language and Communication 32(4), 329-348.

Schembri, A. & Johnston, T. (2012). Sociolinguistic aspects of variation and change. In: R. Pfau, M. Steinbach & B. Woll (Eds.), Sign Language: An International Handbook (pp. 788-816). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

McKee, R., Schembri, A., McKee, D., & Johnston, T. (2011). Variable subject expression in Australian Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language. Language Variation and Change 23(3), 1-24.

Lewin, D. & Schembri, A. (2011). Mouth gestures in British Sign Language (BSL): A case study of tongue protrusion in BSL narratives. Sign Language & Linguistics 14(1), 94-114.

Comrier, K., Schembri, A. & Woll, B. (2010). Diversity across sign languages and spoken languages–Implications for language universals (A response to Evans & Levinson). Lingua 120 (12), 2664-2667. 

Johnston, T. & Schembri, A. (2010). Variation, lexicalization and grammaticalization in signed languages. In: B. Garcia &t M. Derycke (Eds.), Sourds et langue des signs: Normes et variation. Langage et société 131, 5-17.

Schembri, A. (2010). Documenting sign languages. In: Austin, P. (Ed.) Language Documentation and Description Volume 7: Lectures in Language Documentation and Description (pp. 105-143). London: School of African and Oriental Studies. 

Schembri, A., Cormier, K., Johnston, T., McKee, D., McKee, R., & Woll, B. (2010). Sociolinguistic variation in British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Languages. In: Brentari, D. (Ed.), Sign languages (pp. 479-501).Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

De Beuzeville, L., Johnston, T. & Schembri, A. (2009). The use of space with indicating verbs in Australian Sign Language: A corpus-based investigation. Sign Language & Linguistics 12(1), 53-82.

Schembri, A., McKee, D., McKee, R., Johnston, T., Goswell, D. & Pivac, S. (2009). Phonological variation and change in Australian and New Zealand Sign Languages: The location variable. Language Variation and Change 21(2), 193-231.

Vinson, D. P., Cormier, K., Denmark, T., Schembri, A. & Vigliocco, G. (2008). The British Sign Language norms for acquisition, familiarity and iconicity. Behaviour Research Methods 40(4), 1079-1087.

Cormier, K., Schembri, A. & Tyrone, M. (2008). One hand or two? Nativisation of fingerspelling in ASL and BANZSL. Sign Language & Linguistics 11(1), 3-44.

Schembri, A. & Johnston, T. (2007). Sociolinguistic variation in the use of fingerspelling in Australian Sign Language: A pilot study. Sign Language Studies 7(3), 319-347.

Johnston, T., Vermeerbergen, M., Schembri, A. & Leeson, L. (2007). ‘Real data are messy’: Considering the cross-linguistic analysis of constituent ordering in Australian Sign Language (Auslan), Vlaamse Gebarentaal (VGT) and Irish Sign Language (ISL). In: Perniss, P., Pfau, R. & Steinbach, M. (Eds.), Visible variation: Comparative studies on sign language structure (pp. 163-206). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Johnston, T. & Schembri, A. (2006). Issues in the creation of a digital archive of a signed language. In: Barwick, L. & Thieberger, N. (Eds.), Sustainable data from digital fieldwork. (pp. 7-16). Sydney: University of Sydney Press.

Schembri, A., Johnston, T. & Goswell, D. (2006). NAME dropping: Location variation in Australian Sign Language. In: Lucas, C. (Ed.), Multilingualism and sign languages: From the Great Plains to Australia. (pp. 121-156). Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press.

Schembri, A., Jones, C., & Burnham, D. (2005). Comparing action gestures and classifier verbs of motion: Evidence from Australian Sign Language, Taiwan Sign Language, and non-signers’ gestures without speech. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 10(3), 272-290.

Schembri, A. (2003). Rethinking “classifiers” in signed languages. In: Emmorey, K. (Ed.). Perspectives on classifier constructions in sign languages. (pp.3-34). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Schembri, A., Wigglesworth, G., Johnston, T., Leigh, R., Adam, R. & Barker, R. (2002). Issues in the development of the Test Battery for Australian Sign Language Morphology and Syntax. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education7(1), 18-40.

Johnston, T. & Schembri, A. (1999). On defining lexeme in a sign language. Sign Language & Linguistics2(2), 115-185.

Johnston, T., Adam, R., & Schembri, A. (1997). Research in progress: The Auslan Lexicography Project at Renwick College. Australasian Journal of Education of the Deaf, 3 (1).

Test materials

Herman, R., Holmes, S., Woll, B., Schembri, A., Hodge, G. & Rogers, I. (2014). Assessing Auslan (Australian Sign Language) Development. Melbourne: Victorian Deaf Education Institute. 

Dissertation

Schembri, A. C. (2001). Issues in the analysis of polycomponential verbs in Australian Sign Language (Auslan). Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Sydney.