※ 清大語言所104學年度第一學期專題演講三（新第003次） ※
講者： Susan Fischer (City University of New York, USA; Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA; 日本國立民族學博物館訪問學者)
演講題目： Sign language constituent order
時間：2015 年10 月 21 日 (星期三) 中午 12 時 30 分
地點：清大人社院 B305 室

講題摘要：
In every country, one or more sign languages co-exist with the spoken languages surrounding them. As in any contact situation, the grammars of sign languages are often influenced by the grammars of their matrix spoken languages. Sign languages vary most drastically from their surrounding spoken languages at the level of sublexical structure (phonology) and morphology. The influence from spoken language is strongest is at the level
of constituent order, but even there, differences remain, possibly due to the channel of communication. In this presentation, I will discuss constituent order in sign languages from a number of distinct families and in several different contexts.