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Markus Steinbach
Researcher at University of Göttingen
Publications - 79
Citations - 1430
Markus Steinbach is an academic researcher from University of Göttingen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sign language & German Sign Language. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 74 publications receiving 1212 citations. Previous affiliations of Markus Steinbach include University of Mainz & German Primate Center.
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Sign Language: An International Handbook
TL;DR: Sign language linguists show here that all the questions relevant to the linguistic investigation of spoken languages can be asked about sign languages.
Modality-independent and modality-specific aspects of grammaticalization in sign languages
Roland Pfau,Markus Steinbach +1 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that grammaticalization in visual-gestural languages follows the same developmental pathways as in spoken languages, however, the proposed pathways are modality-independent, and they discussed various instances of grammaticalized gestures from manual and non-manual co-speech gestures.
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Pluralization in sign and in speech: A cross-modal typological study
Roland Pfau,Markus Steinbach +1 more
TL;DR: The first cross-modal typological study of noun pluralization is presented, supplemented by a typological sketch of the use of classifiers in plural constructions and by an investigation of how and where plural is realized within the noun phrase.
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Visible Variation: Comparative studies on sign language structure
TL;DR: This volume brings together work by scholars engaging in comparative sign linguistics research that addresses psycholinguistic issues, aspects of language change, and issues concerning data collection in sign languages.