Studying An Emerging Sign Language Won’t Kill It — So What Are Linguists Scared Of?
About eight to ten people were there now, hands flitting in the shadows, chatting away in Kata Kolok, the local sign language: Where is the next ceremony? A graduate student at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at the time, De Vos had come to Bengkala to be the first linguist to map Kata Kolok’s grammar and list all of its signs. So De Vos was sitting on her hands — deliberately not using signs from other languages — when she was in Bengkala.
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