Conference Presentations

Edward, M. (09/25/2025). Signing out? Language contact and the future of Adamorobe Sign Language. Presented at Languages in Contact, Identities in Flux: Sign Language Choice in Deaf Cultural Contexts, Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact, York University. 

Edward, M. & Nyarko, M. S. (01/17/2025). Multilingualism and Language Contact in African Deaf Communities. Plenary presentation at the 15th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference (TISLR 15), January 14-17, 2025, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. https://tislrethiopia.org/

Edward, M. (09/23/2024). The use of ICT in the promotion and dissemination of information about indigenous sign languages in Africa. Plenary presentation at the 10th Anniversary Virtual Conference of Save the Deaf and Endangered Languages Initiative (S-DELI).

Edward, M. (04/05/2024). Multilingualism in African Deaf Communities: An Overview. Oral presentation at the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 55), May 2-4, 2024, McGill University, Canada. https://acal55.mull-lab.org/ 

Edward, M. (08/01/2021). Investigating form-meaning mappings in lexical and grammatical categories in sign languages. Oral presentation at the Conference of Indigenous Hands and Voices of African Identity (IHAVAIC21). https://www.s-deli.org/indigenous-hands-and-voices-of-african-identity/  

Edward, M & Perniss, P. (31/08/2020). Simultaneous constructions in Ghanaian Sign Language and Adamorobe Sign Language. Oral Presentation at the 50th Colloquium on African Language and Linguistics (CALL, Virtual Conference), Leiden University (The Netherlands) https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2020/08/call-2020

Edward, M. & Perniss, P. (27/09/ 2019). Encoding spatial information in two sign languages: A Comparison of Ghanaian (GSL) and Adamorobe (AdaSL) Sign Languages. Oral presentation at the 13th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR), 26-28 September, Hamburg https://www.idgs.uni-hamburg.de/en/tislr2019.html

Edward, M. (06/06/2019). Language of the hands: Comparing signers and gesturers representation of lexical items. Poster presentation at the Multimodality Conference (6-7 June 2019), University of Cologne. https://lingcologne.uni-koeln.de/

Edward, M. (03/05/2019). Patterned iconicity for different semantic categories: Evidence from sign languages and gestures. Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL-12), Lund University, Sweden https://konferens.ht.lu.se/en/ill-12/

Edward, M. (26/09/2018). Lexical Iconicity in Ghanaian Sign language and Adamorobe Sign Language. Oral presentation at the Symposium on West African Languages, University of Warsaw (Poland) http://www.afrykanistyka.uw.edu.pl/konferencje/sywal2018

Edward, M., Asonye, E., Emma-Asonye., E., Oluwasola, A. & (26/09/2018). Sign Languages in Africa and the Foster Legacy: Solving the Paradox. Oral presentation presented at the Symposium on West African Languages, University of Warsaw (Poland) http://www.afrykanistyka.uw.edu.pl/konferencje/sywal2018

Edward, M., & Perniss, P. (13/09/2018) Lexical Comparison of Ghanaian Sign Language and Adamorobe Sign Language. Oral presentation at the Annual Conference of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB), University of Sheffield (UK) http://www.lagb.org.uk/

Edward, M. (01/09/2018). Patterned Iconicity in Ghanaian Sign Language and Adamorobe Sign Language. Oral presentation at the Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL 2018) University of Leiden, Netherlands https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2018/08/call-2018  

Edward, M. (10/03/2017). Behind the veil: The impact of deafness on rural livelihoods in Ghana (Case study of a deaf couple in Adamorobe). Oral presentation at the Interdisciplinary Conference: Disability and Development II: Making Ghana an enabling environment. Lancaster University, Ghana Campus.

Edward, M. (12/11/2016). Our signs matter: Protecting sign language in Adamorobe Ghana. Poster presentation at the Bridging the Gap 4 Conference, University of Brighton, UK.

Edward, M. (27/05/2015). Pictures in the air: Iconicity in the Adamorobe Sign Language. Poster presentation at the Milanguage Spring School, University of Milan-Biccoca, Italy. https://sites.google.com/site/bicoccalanguagespringschool/

Edward, M. (22/05/2015). Signing Out: Linguistics contact and possible endangerment of the Adamorobe Sign Language. Oral presentation at British Association for Applied Linguists (BAAL) Special Interest Group Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.

Edward, M. (26/08/2014). The Semantics of Expressive Interjections in Akan. Oral presentation at the Colloquium on African Language Linguistics (CALL), Leiden University, Netherlands).

Edward, M. (24/07/2014). The Phonology and the Morphology of the Ghanaian Sign language. Oral presentation at the ATELIER International Conference, Abidjan, Cote d’lvoire.