Publications
Publications
Books, or contributions to books
Brookes, H. & Nyst, V. (submitted) Sub Saharan Africa In: Cornelia Müller, Ellen Fricke, Alan Cienki, David McNeill (eds). Body – Language – Communication [invited paper]
Nyst, Victoria (submitted) Sign language fieldwork. In: Orfanidou, E. Woll, B. & Morgan, G. (eds.) The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Sign Language Studies. Oxford: Blackwell. [invited paper]
Nyst,Victoria (submitted) Sign languages in Africa. In: Vossen (ed.) The [Oxford] Handbook of African Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [invited paper]
Nyst, Victoria (2013) The Significance of African Sign Languages for African Linguistics and Sign Language Studies. In: Orie, O. O. and Sanders, K. W. (eds.)Selected Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Linguistic Interfaces in African Languages. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA, 77-81. PDF
Nyst, Victoria, Sylla, Kara & Magassouba, Moustapha (2012) Deaf signers in the Dogon, a rural area in Mali In: Zeshan, Ulrike and Connie de Vos eds. 2012. Sign languages in village communities: Anthropological and linguistic insights. Sign Language Typology Series 4. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Nyst, Victoria (2012) Shared Sign Languages. In: PfauSign language. An international handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 552-574. PDF
Nyst, V. (2010) Sign languages in West Africa. Brentari, D. (ed.) Sign Languages – A Cambridge language survey In: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 405 – 432.PDF
Nyst, V. (2009) Pointing out Possession in Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana). In: Zeshan, Ulrike & Perniss, Pamela (ed.) Possessive constructions in Sign Languages. Sign Language Typology Series No.2. Nijmegen: Ishara Press. PDF
Nyst, V. (2008) Documenting an Endangered Sign Language: Constructing a Corpus of Langue des Signes Malienne (CLaSiMa) In: Proceedings of LREC 2008, Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. PDF
Nyst, V. (2007) A descriptive analysis of Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana). Utrecht: LOT. PDF
Nyst, V. (2007) Simultaneous constructions in Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana). In: Vermeerbergen, Myriam, Lorraine Leeson & Onno Crasborn (eds.) Simultaneity in Signed Languages. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins. 127-145. PDF
Nyst, V. & Baker, A.(2003) The phonology of name signs: a comparison between the Sign Languages of Uganda, Mali, Adamorobe and The Netherlands. In: Baker, Anne, Beppie van den Bogaerde & Onno Crasborn (eds.) Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research. Selected papers from TISLR 2000. Hamburg: Signum.71-80. PDF
Corpora
Nyst, Victoria, Magassouba, Moustapha & Sylla, Kara (2011) Un Corpus de Reference de la Langue des Signes Malienne I. A digital, annotated video corpus of the local sign language used in Bamako and Mopti, Mali. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Universiteit Leiden.
Nyst, Victoria (2012) A Reference Corpus of Adamorobe Sign Language. A digital, annotated video corpus of the sign language used in the village of Adamorobe, Ghana. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Universiteit Leiden.
Nyst, Victoria, Magassouba, Moustapha & Sylla, Kara (2012) Un Corpus de reference de la Langue des Signes Malienne II. A digital, annotated video corpus of local sign language use in the Dogon area of Mali. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Universiteit Leiden.
To appear/in press
Nyst, Victoria (submitted) Sign languages in Africa In: Vossen, Rainer (ed.) Handbook of African Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Nyst, Victoria (forthcoming) Malian Sign Language. In: McGregor, Bill, Hansen, Julia & Goedele deClerck (eds.) The World’s Sign Languages
Nyst, Victoria (submitted) Sign language fieldwork. In: Orfanidou, E., Woll, B., Morgan, G. (eds.) Research Methods in Sign Language Studies: A Practical Guide. Malden: Wiley Blackwell