Adam Schembri

Best Publications

• Australian Sign Language: Auslan: An Introduction to Sign Language Linguistics

  Trevor A. Johnston;Adam Schembri

  719
  Citations

• Rethinking ‘Classifiers’ in Signed Languages

  Adam Schembri

  380
  Citations

• Australian Sign Language (Auslan)

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  344
  Citations

• On defining lexeme in a signed language

  Trevor Johnston;Adam C. Schembri

  317
  Citations

• The British Sign Language (BSL) norms for age of acquisition, familiarity, and iconicity.

  David P. Vinson;Kearsy Cormier;Tanya Denmark;Adam Schembri

  235
  Citations

• Comparing Action Gestures and Classifier Verbs of Motion: Evidence From Australian Sign Language, Taiwan Sign Language, and Nonsigners' Gestures Without Speech

  Adam Schembri;Caroline Jones;Denis K Burnham

  199
  Citations

• Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities

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  182
  Citations

• First language acquisition differs from second language acquisition in prelingually deaf signers: Evidence from sensitivity to grammaticality judgement in British Sign Language

  Kearsy Cormier;Adam Schembri;David Vinson;Eleni Orfanidou

  161
  Citations

• Pronouns and pointing in sign languages

  Kearsy Cormier;Adam Schembri;Bencie Woll

  138
  Citations

• Building the British Sign Language Corpus

  Adam Schembri;Jordan Fenlon;Ramas Rentelis;Sally Reynolds

  134
  Citations

• Lexicalisation and de-lexicalisation processes in sign languages: Comparing depicting constructions and viewpoint gestures

  Kearsy Cormier;David G Quinto-Pozos;Zed Sevcikova;Adam Schembri

  128
  Citations

• Phonological variation and change in Australian and New Zealand Sign Languages: The location variable

  Adam C. Schembri;David McKee;Rachel McKee;Sara Pivac

  120
  Citations

• The Use of space with indicating verbs in Auslan : a corpus-based investigation

  Louise de Beuzeville;Trevor A Johnston;Adam Schembri

  119
  Citations

• Using conversational data to determine lexical frequency in British Sign Language: The influence of text type

  Jordan Fenlon;Adam Schembri;Ramas Rentelis;David Vinson

  100
  Citations

• Variable “subject” presence in Australian Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language

  Rachel McKee;Adam Schembri;David McKee;Trevor Johnston

  98
  Citations

• Lexical variation and change in british sign language.

  Rose Stamp;Adam Schembri;Jordan Fenlon;Ramas Rentelis

  97
  Citations

• Variation, lexicalization and grammaticalization in signed languages

  Trevor Johnston;Adam Schembri

  87
  Citations

• Variation in handshape and orientation in British Sign Language: The case of the ‘1’ hand configuration

  Jordan Fenlon;Adam Schembri;Ramas Rentelis;Kearsy Cormier

  86
  Citations

• Sociolinguistic Variation in the Use of Fingerspelling in Australian Sign Language: A Pilot Study

  Adam Schembri;Trevor A. Johnston

  81
  Citations

• Indicating verbs as typologically unique constructions: Reconsidering verb ‘agreement’ in sign languages

  Adam Schembri;Kearsy Cormier;Jordan Fenlon

  73
  Citations