Els van der Kooij
List of John Benjamins publications for which Els van der Kooij plays a role.
2023 Strategies for new word formation in NGT: A case for simultaneous morphology Sign Language & Linguistics 26:2, pp. 176–217 | Article
How do new words arise in a sign language? We present an empirical study of newly formed words in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). Five signers were asked to create new forms for known concepts for which word forms exist in NGT. Participants used sequential strategies for word formation,… read more
2023 Units of sub-sign meaning in NGT: A toolbox for sub-sign meaning in a lexical database Sign Language & Linguistics 26:2, pp. 276–322 | Article
This paper provides an overview of all the meaningful sub-sign form units (form-meaning units; FMUs) in lexical signs in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). We investigated the potential meaning of all form features that were previously established in analyses of NGT form by analyzing their… read more
2016 Phonology The Linguistics of Sign Languages: An introduction, Baker, Anne E., Beppie van den Bogaerde, Roland Pfau and Trude Schermer (eds.), pp. 251–278 | Article
2012 On the weight of phrase-final prosodic words in a sign language New Methodologies in Sign Language Phonology: Papers from TISLR 10, Brentari, Diane and Ronnie B. Wilbur (eds.), pp. 11–38 | Article
This article seeks to explore a prosodic explanation for the frequent occurrence of pointing signs phrase-finally. Corpus data from Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) show that indeed pointing signs occur highly frequently at the end of sentences, and an elicitation study shows that pointing… read more
2008 Frequency distribution and spreading behavior of different types of mouth actions in three sign languages Sign Language & Linguistics 11:1, pp. 45–67 | Article
In this paper, we present a comparative study of mouth actions in three European sign languages: British Sign Language (BSL), Nederlandse Gebarentaal (Sign Language of the Netherlands, NGT), and Swedish Sign Language (SSL). We propose a typology for, and report the frequency distribution of, the… read more
2007 Sharing sign language data online: Experiences from the ECHO project International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:4, pp. 535–562 | Article
This article describes how new technological possibilities allow sign language researchers to share and publish video data and transcriptions online. Both linguistic and technological aspects of creating and publishing a sign language corpus are discussed, and standards are proposed for both… read more
2005 Modifiable and intensifier self in Dutch and Sign Language of the Netherlands Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005, Doetjes, Jenny and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.), pp. 61–72 | Article
2003 Base joint configuration in Sign Language of the Netherlands: Phonetic variation and phonological specification The Phonological Spectrum: Volume I: Segmental structure, Weijer, Jeroen van de, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), pp. 257–287 | Article
2001 SignPhon: A phonological database for sign languages Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information, Bergman, Brita, Penny Boyes Braem, Thomas Hanke and Elena Antinoro Pizzuto (eds.), pp. 215–228 | Article
This paper describes the SignPhon database, a tool for phonological research. The history and goal of the project are outlined, and the database is briefly compared to other projects like HamNoSys and SignStream. We present the structure of the database and an overview of the fields that are… read more
1998 The Position of Unselected Fingers Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998, Bezooijen, Renée van and René Kager (eds.), pp. 149–162 | Article
1997 Relative Orientation in Sign Language Phonology Linguistics in the Netherlands 1997, Coerts, Jane A. and Helen de Hoop (eds.), pp. 37–48 | Article
1997 Contact: A Phonological or a Phonetic Feature of Signs? Linguistics in the Netherlands 1997, Coerts, Jane A. and Helen de Hoop (eds.), pp. 109–122 | Article
Abstract In early, simultaneous analyses of signs, [a_contact] is a multivalent feature pertaining to the movement parameter (cf. Friedman 1976). In models that make use of sequential units (Liddell and Johnson 1989, Sandler 1989, Perlmutter 1989, van der Hulst 1993) the valence of [contact] can… read more