Aarons, Debra (1994) Aspects of the Syntax of American Sign Language. Doctoral dissertation, Boston University, Boston, MA.

Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of General Linguistics (which offered the first specialization in sign language linguistics in South Africa), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa - through 2003. Now a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Some recent publications

Aarons, D., and Morgan, R., (2003). Classifier Predicates and the Creation of Multiple Perspectives in South African Sign Language. Sign Language Studies, 3(4), 125-156.

Aarons, D. and Akach, P. (2002). South African Sign Language--one language or many? In R. Mesthrie, ed., Language and Social History. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Aarons, D, and Reynolds, L. (2003). South African Sign Language: Changing Policies and Practices. In L. Monaghan, ed., Many ways to be Deaf. Washington DC and Hamburg: Gallaudet University Press and Signum Press.

Bahan, Benjamin (1996) Non-Manual Realization of Agreement in American Sign Language. Doctoral dissertation, Boston University, Boston, MA.

Current position: Professor and Chair of the ASL and Deaf Studies Department, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC.

Some recent publications

Bahan, B. (2007) Memoir upon the formation of a visual variety of the human race. In Bauman (editor) Open your eyes: Deaf Studies talking. University of Minnesota Press. Also in (2005) B. Eldredge, D. Stringham and M.M. Wilding-Diaz (editors) Deaf Studies Today: A Kaleidoscope of Knowledge, Learning, and Understanding. Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah.

Bahan, B (2006) Face to Face Tradition in the American Deaf Community: Dynamics of the Teller, Tale and Audience. In Bauman, D., J. Nelson, and H. Rose (eds.) The Poetics of Vision, Performance and the Body: Exploring American Sign Language Literature. A Multimedia Anthology. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Bahan, B. and Poole Nash, J. (1996). The Formation of Signing Communities: Perspective from Martha's Vineyard. In J. Mann, ed., Deaf Studies IV Conference proceedings. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University College of Continuing Education.

Lane, H., Hoffmeister, R., and Bahan, B. (1996). A Journey into the Deaf World. San Diego: Dawn Sign Press.

Cahana-Amitay, Dalia (1997) Syntactic Aspects of the Production of Verbal Inflection in Aphasia. Doctoral dissertation, Boston University, Boston, MA.

Current position: Project Manager, MED Neurology, Veterans Administration Center, Boston University, Boston, MA.
Recent position: Assistant Professor, Department of Enlgish, Beit Berl Academic College, Kfar Sabba, Israel.

Some recent publications and presentations:

Ravid, Dorit & Dalia Cahana-Amitay. 2005. Verbal and nominal expression in narrating conflict situations in Hebrew. Journal of Pragmatics, 37:157-183.

Katzenberger, Irit & Dalia Cahana-Amitay. 2002. Segmentation marking in text production. Linguistics, 40(6):1161-1184.

Ragnarsdóttir, Hrafnhildur, Melina Aparici, Dalia Cahana-Amitay, Janet van Hell, Anne Viguié. 2002. Verbal structure and content in written discourse: Expository and narrative texts. Written Language and Literacy, 5(1):95-125.

Verhoeven, Ludo, Melina Aparici, Dalia Cahana-Amitay, Janet van Hell, Sarah Kriz & Anne Viguié. 2002. Clause packaging : a cross-linguistic developmental analysis. Written Language and Literacy, 5(2):135-162.

Cahana-Amitay, Dalia. 1996. On the production of subjects, tense and agreement in two Hebrew-speaking agrammatic patients. Brain and Cognition, 30(30):329-332.

Law, Sam-Po (1990) The Syntax and Phonology of Cantonese Sentence-Final Particles. Doctoral dissertation, Boston University, Boston, MA.

Associate Professor, Dept.of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Hong Kong.
Director, Aphasia, dyslexia and dysgraphia laboratory.

Some recent publications; see also home page:

Law, S.-P., Wong, W., Chiu, K.M.Y. (2005). Preserved reading aloud with semantic deficits: Evidence for a non-semantic lexical route for reading Chinese.Neurocase, 11(3), 167-175

Law, S.-P. (2004). Writing Errors of a Cantonese Dysgraphic Patient and their Theoretical Implications. Neurocase, 10(2), 132-140.

Leung, M.-T. Law, S.-P., and Fung, S.-Y. (2004). Type and token frequencies of phonological units in Hong Kong Cantonese. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36(3), 500-505.

Law, S.-P., and Cheng, M.-Y. (2002). Production of grammatical morphemes in Cantonese aphasia. Aphasiology, 16(7), 693 - 714.

Law, S.-P., and Or, B. (2001). A Case Study of Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in Cantonese: Evidence for Nonsemantic Pathways for Reading and Writing Chinese. Cognitive Neuropsychology , 18(8), 729-748.

Law, S.-P., and Leung, M.-T. (2000). Sentence processing deficits in two Cantonese aphasic patients. Brain and Language.

Law, S.-P. (2000). Structural prominence hypothesis and Chinese aphasic sentence comprehension. Brain and Language.

Law, S.-P., and Leung, M.-T. (2000). Structural representations of characters in Chinese writing: Evidence from a case of acquired dysgraphia. Psychologia, 43(1), 67-83.

Law, S.-P., Fung, R., & Bauer, R. (2000). Perception and production of Cantonese consonant endings. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing.

Law, S.-P., and Leung, M.-T. (1998). Sentence comprehension in Chinese aphasic patients. Aphasiology, 12(1), 49-63.

MacLaughlin, Dawn (1997) The Structure of Determiner Phrases: Evidence from American Sign Language. Doctoral dissertation, Boston University, Boston, MA.

Recent position: Training specialist at www.netegrity.com.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, McGill University, 2000-2001.

Some recent publications

MacLaughlin, D. (1995). Language Acquisition and the Subset Principle. The Linguistic Review, 12, 143-191.

MacLaughlin, D. (1998). The acquisition of the morphosyntax of English reflexives by non-native speakers. In M.-L. Beck, ed., Morphology and its interfaces in second language knowledge (pp. 195-226). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.