Roland Pfau

Roland Pfau publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Roland Pfau D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Best Publications

• Sign Language: An International Handbook

  Roland Pfau;Markus Steinbach;Bencie Woll

  247
  Citations

• Nonmanuals: their grammatical and prosodic roles

  Roland Pfau;Josep Quer

  240
  Citations

• Sign Language Typology: The Contribution of Rural Sign Languages

  Connie De Vos;Roland Pfau

  145
  Citations

• Event representations constrain the structure of language: Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases.

  Brent Strickland;Carlo Geraci;Emmanuel Chemla;Philippe Schlenker

  135
  Citations

• V-to-Neg raising and negative concord in three sign languages

  Roland Pfau;Josep Quer

  100
  Citations

• Pluralization in sign and in speech: A cross-modal typological study

  Roland Pfau;Markus Steinbach

  92
  Citations

• Modality-independent and modality-specific aspects of grammaticalization in sign languages

  Roland Pfau;Markus Steinbach

  77
  Citations

• Applying morphosyntactic and phonological readjustment rules in natural language negation

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  69
  Citations

• Can’t you see the difference? Sources of variation in sign language structure

  Pamela M. Perniss;R. Pfau;M. Steinbach

  69
  Citations

• When a Wh-word is not a Wh-word : the case of Indian Sign Language

  Ulrike Zeshan;R. Pfau;E. Aboh

  68
  Citations

• 9. Tense, aspect, and modality

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  65
  Citations

• Grammaticalization in sign languages

  Roland Pfau;Markus Steinbach

  62
  Citations

• The syntax of sign language agreement: Common ingredients, but unusual recipe

  Roland Pfau;Martin Salzmann;Markus Steinbach

  61
  Citations

• Grammaticalization of auxiliaries in sign languages

  M. Steinbach;R. Pfau

  49
  Citations

• Optimal reciprocals in German Sign Language

  Roland Pfau;Markus Steinbach

  36
  Citations

• Signing NOT (or not): A typological perspective on standard negation in Sign Language of the Netherlands

  Marloes Oomen;Roland Pfau

  28
  Citations

• The grammar of headshake: a typological perspective on German Sign Language negation

  Roland Pfau

  23
  Citations

• A Featural Approach to Sign Language Negation

  Roland Pfau

  20
  Citations

• On the syntax of negation and modals in Catalan Sign Language and German Sign Language

  Pamela M. Perniss;Roland Pfau;Markus Steinbach

  19
  Citations

• What’s a wh-word got to do with it?

  E.O. Aboh;R. Pfau

  13
  Citations