Introduction
Irit Meir
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Formative period
- 3.Irit’s major contributions to sign language research
- 4.Contributions to this volume
- 4.1Space and the organization of morphology and syntax
- Kwok, Berk & Lillo-Martin
- Morgan
- 4.2Iconicity and the lexicon
- Pyers & Senghas
- Schaller, Lee, Sevcikova Sehyr, Farnady & Emmorey
- Börstell & Lepic
- 4.3Language emergence and grammaticalization
- Dachkovsky
- Ergin, Senghas, Jackendoff & Gleitman
- Tkachman & Hudson Kam
- Sandler, Belsitzman & Meir
- Meir
- 5.Humans first – a driving force for Irit
- Notes
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