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1. Introduction Diane Brentari; Part I. History and Transmission: 2.Transmission of sign languages in northern Europe Penny Boyes Braem andChristian Rathmann; 3. Transmission of sign languages in Latin America ClaireRamsey and David Quinto-Pozos; 4. Transmission of sign languages in theNordic countries Brita Bergman and Elisabeth Engberg Pedersen; 5.Transmission of sign languages in Mediterranean Europe Josep Quer, GaliniSapountzaki and Laura Mazzoni; 6. Transmission of sign languages in AfricaDorothy Lule and Lars Wallin; 7. Transmission of Polish sign systems PiotrWojda; Part II. Shared Crosslinguistic Characteristics: 8. Notation systemsHarry van der Hulst and Rachel Channon; 9. Verb agreement in sign languagemorphology Gaurav Mathur and Christian Rathmann; 10. Functional markers insign languages Sandro Zucchi, Carol Neidle, Carlo Geraci, Quinn Duffy andCarlo Cecchetto; 11. Clause structure Ronice Muller de Quadros and DianeLillo-Martin; 12. Factors that form classifier signs ElisabethEngberg-Pedersen; 13. Handshape contrasts in sign language phonology DianeBrentari and Petra Eccarius; 14. Syllable structure in sign languagephonology Tommi Jantunen and Ritva Takkinen; 15. Grammaticalization in signlanguages Sherman Wilcox, Paolo Rossini and Elena Pizzuto; 16. Thesemantics-phonology interface Ronnie Wilbur; 17. Nonmanuals: their prosodicand grammatical roles Roland Pfau and Josep Quer; Part III. Variation andChange: 18. Sign language varieties in West Africa Victoria Nyst; 19. Signlanguages in the Arab world Kinda Al-Fityani and Carol Padden; 20. Variationin American sign language Ceil Lucas and Robert Bayley; 21. Sociolinguisticvariation in British, Australian, and New Zealand sign language AdamSchembri, Kearsy Cormier, Trevor Johnston, David McKee, Rachel McKee andBencie Woll; 22. Variation in East Asian sign language structures SusanFischer and Qunhu Gong; 23. Crosslinguistic variation in prosodic cues GladysTang, Diane Brentari, Carolina Gonzalez and Felix Sze; 24. Deixis in anemerging sign language Marie Coppola and Anne Senghas; 25. The grammar ofspace in two new sign languages Carol Padden, Irit Meir, Mark Aronoff andWendy Sandler.