Publications

2024

Kimmelman, V., M. Oomen & R. Pfau (2024) Headshakes in NGT: Relation between Phonetic Properties & Linguistic Functions Proceedings of LREC-SL 2024. [pdf] https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/24008.html

Kimmelman, V., A. Price, J. Safar, C. de Vos & J. Bulla (2024) Nonmanual Marking of Questions in Balinese Homesign Interactions: a Computer-Vision Assisted Analysis. Proceedings of LREC-SL 2024. [pdf] https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/24009.html

Susman, M. & V. Kimmelman. (2024) Eye Blink Detection in Sign Language Data Using CNNs and Rule-Based Methods Proceedings of LREC-SL 2024. [pdf] https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/24005.html

Kuznetsova, A. & V. Kimmelman. (2024). Testing MediaPipe Holistic for Linguistic Analysis of Nonmanual Markers in Sign Languages. arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10367. (pre-print, open access)

2023

Kimmelman, V. & C. Börstell (2023). Word classes in sign languages. In E. van Lier (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Word Classes, 809-830. Oxford University Press.

Kimmelman, V. & A. Teresė (2023). Analyzing Literary Texts in Lithuanian Sign Language with Computer Vision: A Proof of Concept. In R. Galimullin & S. Touileb. CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 3413. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3431/paper5.pdf

Burkova, S., Khristoforova, E., & Kimmelman, V. (2023). Chapter 4. Syntactic functions of nonmanuals in Russian Sign Language. In E. Wehrmeyer (Ed.), Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics (Vol. 108, pp. 90-122). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.108.04bur. [pdf]

2022

Chizhikova, A., & Kimmelman, V. (2022). Phonetics of Negative Headshake in Russian Sign Language: A Small-Scale Corpus Study. In E. Efthimiou, S.-E. Fotinea, T. Hanke, J. A. Hochgesang, J. Kristoffersen, J. Mesch, & M. Schulder (Eds.), Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources (pp. 29-36). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://www. sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/22011.pdf

Kuznetsova, A., Imashev, A., Mukushev, M., Sandygulova, A., & Kimmelman, V. (2022). Functional Data Analysis of Non-manual Marking of Questions in Kazakh-Russian Sign Language. In E. Efthimiou, S.-E. Fotinea, T. Hanke, J. A. Hochgesang, J. Kristoffersen, J. Mesch, & M. Schulder (Eds.), Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources (pp. 124-131). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/22024.pdf

Mukushev, M., Ubingazhibov, A., Kydyrbekova, A., Imashev, A., Kimmelman, V., & Sandygulova, A. (2022). Crowdsourcing Kazakh-Russian Sign Language: FluentSigners-50. In N. Calzolari, F. Bechet, P. Blache, K. Choukri, C. Cieri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, H. Isahara, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, H. Mazo, J. Odijk, & S. Piperidis (Eds.), 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022) (pp. 2541-2547). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/pdf/2022.lrec-1.271

Kimmelman, V., Burkova, S. & E. Filimonova (2022). Number in Russian Sign Language. In M. Daniel & P. Acquaviva (eds.) Handbook of Number (pp. 805-832). De Gruyter Mouton. [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. (2022). Argument structure in sign languages. Annual Review of Linguistics, 8(1), 19-38. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031220-122519 [Download a copy here.]

Kimmelman, V., Komarova, A., Luchkova, L., Vinogradova, V., & Alekseeva, O. (2022). Exploring networks of lexical variation in Russian Sign Language. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 6333. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.740734 (open access)

2021

Khristoforova, E., & Kimmelman, V. (2021). Question-answer pairs in Russian Sign Language: A corpus study. FEAST 4, 101-112. https://doi.org/10.31009/FEAST.i4.08 (open access)

Kimmelman, V. (2021). Acceptability judgments in sign languages. In G. Goodall (ed.) Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax, (pp. 561-584). Cambridge University Press. [preprint]

Kuznetsova, A., A. Imashev, M. Mukushev, A. Sandygulova & V. Kimmelman (2021). Using Computer Vision to Analyze Non-manual Marking of Questions in KRSL. In D. Shterionov (ed.) Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL), (pp. 49-59). Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. https://aclanthology.org/2021.mtsummit-at4ssl.6/ (open access)

Kimmelman, V. & J. Quer (2021) Quantifiers: Theoretical Perspectives. In J. Quer, R. Pfau & A. Herrmann (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research, (pp. 423-439). Routledge. [preprint]

Kimmelman, V. & R. Pfau. (2021) Information Structure: Theoretical Perspectives. In J. Quer, R. Pfau & A. Herrmann (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research, (pp. 591-413). Routledge. [preprint]

2020

Khristoforova, E. & V. Kimmelman (2020). Syntax of relativization in Russian Sign Language: Basic features. Voprosy Jazykoznaniia 6: 48-65. [pdf]

Imashev, A., M. Mukushev, V. Kimmelman & A. Sandygulova (2020). A Dataset for Linguistic Understanding, Visual Evaluation, and Recognition of Sign Languages: The K-RSL. In Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 631-640. Online: Association for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.conll-1.51 (open access)

Kimmelman, V., A. Imashev, M. Mukushev & A. Sandygulova. (2020). Eyebrow position in grammatical and emotional expressions in Kazakh-Russian Sign Language: A quantitative study. PLOS ONE 15(6). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233731 (open access)

Mukushev, M., A. Imashev, V. Kimmelman & A. Sandygulova. (2020). Automatic Classification of Handshapes in Russian Sign Language. In Proceedings of the LREC 2020 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives, 165-169. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association. [pdf]

Mukushev, M., A. Sabyrov, A. Imashev, K. Koishybay, V. Kimmelman & A. Sandygulova. (2020). Evaluation of Manual and Non-manual Components for Sign Language Recognition. In Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 6075-6080. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.745. [pdf]

2019

Burkova, S. & V. Kimmelman (eds.) Introduction to sign language linguistics. Russian Sign Language. Novosibirsk State Technical University (in Russian). The book can be ordered here: http://publish.nstu.ru/catalog/uchebniki-ngtu/2242

Börstell, C., Jantunen, T., Kimmelman, V., de Lint, V., Mesch, J., & Oomen, M. (2019). Transitivity prominence within and across modalities. Open Linguistics 5: 666–689. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0037 (open access)

Kimmelman, V., V. De Lint, C. De Vos, M. Oomen, R. Pfau, L. Vink, E.O. Aboh. (2019). Argument structure of classifier predicates: Canonical and mon-canonical mappings in four sign languages. Open Linguistics 5: 332-353. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0018 (open access)

Kimmelman, V., R. Pfau & E.O. Aboh. (2019) Argument structure of classifier predicates in Russian Sign Language. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. DOI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11049-019-09448-9 (open access)

Kimmelman, V. (2019). Information Structure in Sign Languages. Sign Language and Deaf Community series. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. See the book here.

Oomen, M. & V. Kimmelman (2019). Body-anchored verbs and argument omission in two sign languages. Glossa 4(1), 42. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.741 (open access).

Burkova S., V. Kimmelman, E. Filimonova, V. Kopylova, N. Semushina. (2019). Time-related signs in Russian Sign Language. Sign Language Studies 19(2), 175-203. [pdf]

Kyuseva, M. & V. Kimmelman. (2019). Метафоры в жестовых языках: глаголы эмоций и ментальной сферы в русском жестовом языке. Voprosy Jazykoznanija. 5: 120-134. DOI: http://doi.org/10.31857/S0373658X0006288-5

2018

Kimmelman, V. (2018). Impersonal reference in Russian Sign Language (RSL). Sign Language and Linguistics 21:2, 204-231. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00018.kim. [pdf].

Kimmelman, V. & E. Khristoforova. (2018). Quotation in Russian Sign Language: insights from corpus and elicitation. FEAST 2: 93-102. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31009/FEAST.i2.08 (open access)

Kimmelman, V. (2018) Basic argument structure in Russian Sign Language. Basic argument structure in Russian Sign Language. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 3(1), 116. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.494. (open access)

Kimmelman, V. (2018). Reduplication and repetition in Russian Sign Language. R. Finkbeiner, U. Freywald (eds.), Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse (pp. 91–109). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110592498-004 [preprint pdf].

Kimmelman, V., M. Kyuseva, Y. Lomakina & D. Perova (2018). On the notion of metaphor in sign languages: some observations based on Russian Sign Language. Sign Language and Linguistics 20 (2), 157-182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sll.00001.kim [pdf]

Khristoforova, E. & V. Kimmelman (2018). Corpus-based investigation of quotation in Russian Sign Language. Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Papers from the Annual International Conference “Dialogue 2018”, vol. 17 (pp: 294-305), Moscow: RSUH. Available online.

Kimmelman, V. (2018). Null arguments in Russian Sign Language. FEAST 1, 27-38. https://doi.org/10.2436/20.8050.03.3 (open access)

Kimmelman, V., A. Klezovich & G. Moroz (2018). IPSL: A Database of Iconicity Patterns in Sign Languages. Creation and Use. In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, C. Cieri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, K. Hasida, H. Isahara, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, H. Mazo, A. Moreno, J. Odijk, S. Piperidis & T. Tokunaga (eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) (pp: 4230-4234). Paris: ELRA. Available online.

Kimmelman, V., U. Klomp & M. Oomen (2018). Where methods meet: Combining corpus data and elicitation in sign language research . In M. Bono, E. Efthimiou, S.-E. Fotinea, T. Hanke, J. Hochgesang, J. Kristoffersen, J. Mesch and Y. Osugi (eds.), Proceedings of 8th Workshop on the representation and processing of Sign Languages: Involving the linguistic community (pp: 95-100). Paris: ELRA. Available online.

Kimmelman, V. & E. Khristoforova (2018). Quotation in Russian Sign Language: a corpus study. In M. Bono, E. Efthimiou, S.-E. Fotinea, T. Hanke, J. Hochgesang, J. Kristoffersen, J. Mesch and Y. Osugi (eds.), Proceedings of 8th Workshop on the representation and processing of Sign Languages: Involving the linguistic community (pp: 91-94). Paris: ELRA. Available online.

Kimmelman, V. (2018). Review of ‘Plaza-Pust, Carolina (2016). Bilingualism and Deafness’. Voprosy Jazykoznanija 1, 155-158. (In Russian). [pdf]

2017

Kimmelman, V. & L. Vink (2017). Question-answer pairs in Sign Language of the Netherlands. Sign Language Studies 17 (4), 417-449. [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. (2017). Quantifiers in Russian Sign Language. In Keenan, E., & D. Paperno (eds.), Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Languages, volume II (pp: 803-855). Springer. [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. & M. Steinbach. (2017). Evidentiality. In Quer, J., C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau, M. Steinbach (eds.), SignGram Blueprint (pp: 575-583). De Guyter Mouton. Open access.

Kimmelman, V. & M. Steinbach. (2017). Reference tracking. In Quer, J., C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau, M. Steinbach (eds.), SignGram Blueprint (pp: 683-691). De Guyter Mouton. Open access.

Barberà, G., V. Kimmelman, &M. Steinbach. (2017). Expressive meaning. In Quer, J., C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau, M. Steinbach (eds.), SignGram Blueprint (pp: 736-744). De Guyter Mouton. Open access.

Barberà, G. & V. Kimmelman (2017). Signing space. In Quer, J., C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau, M. Steinbach (eds.), SignGram Blueprint (pp: 745-758). De Guyter Mouton. Open access.

Kimmelman, V. (2017). Figurative meaning. In Quer, J., C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau, M. Steinbach (eds.), SignGram Blueprint (pp: 759-765). De Guyter Mouton. Open access.

Kimmelman, V. (2017). Linearization of weak hand holds in Russian Sign Language. Linguistics in Amsterdam 10(1), 28-59. [pdf]

2016

Kimmelman, V., Sáfár, A. & O. Crasborn (2016). Towards a classification of weak hand holds. Open Linguistics 2, 211-234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0010. (open access)

Kimmelman, V. (2016) Transitivity in RSL: a corpus-based account. In E. Efthimiou, S. Fotinea, T. Hanke, J. Hochgesang, J. Kristoffersen & J. Mesch (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on the representation and processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining (pp. 117-120). Paris: ELRA. Available online.

Kimmelman, V. & R. Pfau (2016). Information Structure in Sign Languages. In Fery, C. & S. Ishihara (eds.), The Oxford handbook on information structure (pp. 814-833). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. (2016). Review of ‘Signs and Structures: Formal Approaches to Sign Language Syntax, ed. by Pawel Rutkowski’. Sign Language Studies 16(4), 592-595. [pdf]

2015

Kimmelman, V., N. Korotkova, & I. Yanovich (eds) (2015). Proceedings of MOSS 2: Moscow Syntax and Semantics. Boston: MITWPL.

Sáfár, A. & V. Kimmelman (2015). Weak hand holds in two sign languages and two genres. Sign Language & Linguistics 18(2), 205-237. [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. (2015). Topics and topic prominence in two sign languages. Journal of Pragmatics 87, 156-170. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2015.08.004. [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. (2015). Information Structure in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands. Dissertation abstract. Sign Language & Linguistics 18(1), 142-150. [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. (2015). Multiple tiers, multiple trees. Proceedings of CLS 49, pp. 225-238. [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. (2015). Quantifiers in RSL: distributivity and compositionality. In P. Arkadiev, I. Kapitonov, Y. Lander, E. Rakhilina, & S. Tatevosov (Eds.) Donum Semanticum (pp. 121-134). Moscow: Jazyki Slavjanskoj Kuljtury. Full book available here.

Kimmelman, V. (2015). Review of ‘Herrmann, Annika (2013): Modal and Focus Particles in Sign Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Study’. Linguistische Berichte 241. [pdf]

2014

Kimmelman, V. (2014). Information Structure in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands. PhD dissertation, University of Amsterdam. Available online

2013 and earlier

Kimmelman, V. (2013). Doubling in RSL and NGT: a pragmatic account. In M. Balbach, L. Benz, S. Genzel, M. Grubic, A. Renans, S. Schalowski, M. Stegenwallner & A. Zeldes (Eds.), Information Structure: Empirical Perspectives on Theory Vol. 17. Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure: ISIS: working papers of the SFB 632 (pp. 99-118). Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam. [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. (2013) Review of ‘Reeve, Mathew (2012) Clefts and their relatives’. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 21(2), 317-340.

Kimmelman, V. (2012). Word order in Russian Sign Language. Sign Language Studies 12(3), 414-445. [pdf]

Aloni, M., V. Kimmelman, F. Roelofsen, G. Weidman Sassoon, K. Schulz, & M. Westera (eds) (2012). Logic, Language and Meaning - 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 19-21, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Dordrecht: Springer.

Kimmelman, V. (2012). Doubling in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands: looking for a unified account. In Proceedings of IATL 27 (pp. 57-81), MITWPL.

Kimmelman, V. (2012). Word order in RSL. An extended report. Linguistics in Amsterdam 5(1), 1-59. [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. (2012). Binding Theory and Sign Languages. In D.V. Gerasimov (Ed.), ACTA LINGUISTICA PETROPOLITANA (pp. 88-92). Saint Petersburg: Nauka. (In Russian) [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. (2011) Review of ‘Sign Languages. Ed. by Diane Brentari (2010)’. Voprosy Jazykoznanija 4, 135-143.(In Russian) [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. (2010). Review of ‘Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Eds. Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop and Andrej Malchukov (2010)’. Voprosy Jazykoznanija 6, 138-145. (in Russian) [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. (2009). Parts of speech in Russian Sign Language: The role of iconicity and economy. Sign Language & Linguistics 12(2), 161-186. [pdf]

Kimmelman, V. (2009). On the interpretation of èto in so-called èto-clefts. In G. Zybatow, D. Lenertová,U. Junghanns, & P. Biskup(eds.): Studies in Formal Slavic Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Information Structure: Proceedings of FDSL 7 (pp. 319-329). Frankfurt: Peter Lang. [pdf]