FY 2008 Annual Report of Achievements - Gallaudet University

A Basic Grammar of Croatian Sign Language (HZJ)
Status: Ongoing Begin date: May 2004 End date: August 2009
Principal Investigator(s):
Wilbur, Ronnie – Purdue University, Speech,
Language and Hearing Sciences
Chen Pichler, Deborah – Linguistics
Other Investigator(s):
Vulje, Martina – University of Zagreb
Milkovic, Marina – University of Zagreb
Kuhn, Nina – Independent consultant
Alibasic, Tamara – Split, Croatia
Pribanic, Ljubica – University of Zagreb
Description:
Five-year NSF funding for this project was granted in May 2004 and research teams were
assembled in the United States (at Purdue University and Gallaudet University) and in Croatia (in
Split and the University of Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia.) Several trips for data collection and training
of Croatian personnel have been completed. The goal of the project continues to be to analyze
grammatical structures of Croatian Sign Language—Hrvatski Znakovni Jezik (HZJ)—for eventual
development of a published grammar text. Text will be used for further linguistic research of HZJ as
well as for training of HZJ interpreters in Croatia.
Funding source: NSF
FY 2007-2008 product(s):
Chen Pichler, D., Schalber, K., Hochgesang, J., Pribanic, Lj., & Vulje, M. (2007). Possession et existence en trois langues
signées. In A.M. Berthonneau, G. Dal, & A. Risler (Eds.), Silexicales: No. 5. Syntaxe, interpretation, lexique des langues
signées. Villeneuve d’Ascq, France: Université Charles-de-Gaulle–Lille 3.
Chen Pichler, D., Schalber, K., Wilbur, R., & Hochgesang, J. (2008). Possession and existence in three sign languages. In
R.M. de Quadros (Ed.), Sign languages: Spinning and unraveling the past, present, and future from TISLR9. Petropolis, Brazil:
Editorar Arara Azul.
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