Other Publications
Books
Schembri, A., Cormier, K., Fenlon, J. & Johnston, T. (forthcoming) An introduction to sign language linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schembri, A. & Lucas, C. (Eds.), (2015). Sociolinguistics and Deaf communities.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Johnston, T. & Schembri, A. (2007). Australian Sign Language (Auslan): An introduction to sign language linguistics.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Hodge, G., Sekine, K., Schembri, A. & Johnston, T. (accepted). Comparing signers and speakers: Building a directly comparable corpus of Auslan and Australian English. Corpora.
Schembri, A., Cormier, K. & Fenlon, J. (2018). Indicating verbs as typologically unique constructions: Reconsidering verb ‘agreement’ in sign languages. Glossa.
Schembri, A., Fenlon, J., Cormier, K. & Johnston, T. (2018). Sociolinguistic typology and sign languages. Frontiers in Psychology.
Fenlon, J., Schembri, A. & Cormier, K. (2018). Modification of indicating verbs in British Sign Language: A corpus-based study. Language.
Stamp, R., Schembri, A., Evans, B. & Cormier, K. (2016) British Sign Language (BSL) regional varieties in contact: Investigating the patterns of accommodation and language change. Journal of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education21(1): 70-82.
Cormier, K., Fenlon, J. & Schembri, A. (2016). Indicating verbs in British Sign Language favour use of motivated space. Open Linguistics 1: 684-707..
Fenlon, J., Cormier, K. & Schembri, A. (2015). Building BSL SignBank: The lemma dilemma revisited. International Journal of Lexicography 28(2): 169-206.
Johnston, T., Cresdee, D., Schembri, A. & Woll, B. (2015) FINISH variation and grammaticalization in a signed language: How far down this well-trodden pathway is Auslan (Australian Sign Language)? Language Variation and Change 27(1): 117-155.
Johnston, T., van Roekel, J. & Schembri, A. (2015) On the conventionalization of mouth actions in Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Language and Speech 58(1): 315-339.
Stamp, R., Schembri, A., Fenlon, J. & Rentelis, R. (2015). Variation and change in British Sign Language number signs. Sign Language Studies, 15 (2): 151-181.
Green, J., Kelly, B. & Schembri, A. (2014). Finding common ground: Sign language and gesture research in Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 34(2).
Stamp, R., Schembri, A., Fenlon, J. & Rentelis, R., Woll, B. & Cormier, K. (2014). Lexical variation and change in British Sign Language. PLoS ONE9(4): e94053. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094053.
Fenlon, J., Schembri, A., Rentelis, R., Vinson, D. & Cormier, K. (2014). Using conversational data to determine lexical frequency in British Sign Language: The influence of text type. Lingua 143, 187-202.
Cormier, K., Schembri, A., & Woll, B. (2013). Pronouns and pointing: where do sign languages fit? Lingua 137, 230-247.
Schembri, A., Fenlon, F., Rentelis, R., Reynolds, S. & Cormier, K. (2013). Building the British Sign Language Corpus. Language Documentation and Conservation 7, 136-154.
Fenlon, J., Schembri, A., Rentelis, R., & Cormier, K. (2013). Variation in handshape and orientation in British Sign Language: The case of the ‘1’ hand configuration. Language and Communication 33(1), 69-91.
Cormier, K., Schembri, A., Vinson, D., & Orfanidou, E. (2012). First language acquisition differs from second language acquisition in prelingually deaf signers: Evidence from the grammatical processing of British Sign Language. Cognition124(1); 50-65.
McKee, R., Schembri, A., McKee, D., & Johnston, T. (2011). Variable subject expression in Australian Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language. Language Variation and Change 23(3), 1-24.
Lewin, D. & Schembri, A. (2011). Mouth gestures in British Sign Language (BSL): A case study of tongue protrusion in BSL narratives.Sign Language & Linguistics 14(1), 94-114.
Comrier, K., Schembri, A. & Woll, B. (2010). Diversity across sign languages and spoken languages–Implications for language universals (A response to Evans & Levinson). Lingua 120 (12), 2664-2667.
Johnston, T. & Schembri, A. (2010). Variation, lexicalization and grammaticalization in signed languages.In: B. Garcia &t M. Derycke (Eds.), Sourds et langue des signs: Normes et variation. Langage et société 131, 5-17.
De Beuzeville, L., Johnston, T. & Schembri, A. (2009). The use of space with indicating verbs in Australian Sign Language: A corpus-based investigation. Sign Language & Linguistics 12(1), 53-82.
Schembri, A., McKee, D., McKee, R., Johnston, T., Goswell, D. & Pivac, S. (2009). Phonological variation and change in Australian and New Zealand Sign Languages: The location variable.Language Variation and Change 21(2), 193-231.
Vinson, D. P., Cormier, K., Denmark, T., Schembri, A. & Vigliocco, G. (2008).The British Sign Language norms for acquisition, familiarity and iconicity. Behaviour Research Methods40(4), 1079-1087.
Cormier, K., Schembri, A. & Tyrone, M. (2008). One hand or two?: A crosslinguistic analysis of the non-native lexicon in signed languages.Sign Language & Linguistics11(1), 3-44.
Schembri, A. & Johnston, T. (2007). Sociolinguistic variation in the use of fingerspelling in Australian Sign Language: A pilot study. Sign Language Studies7:3, 319-347.
Schembri, A., Jones, C., & Burnham, D. (2005). Comparing action gestures and classifier verbs of motion: Evidence from Australian Sign Language, Taiwan Sign Language, and non-signers’ gestures without speech.Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 10:3, 272-290.
Schembri, A., Wigglesworth, G., Johnston, T., Leigh, R., Adam, R. & Barker, R. (2002). Issues in the development of the Test Battery for Australian Sign Language Morphology and Syntax. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education7:1, 18-40.
Johnston, T. & Schembri, A. (1999). On defining lexeme in a sign language. Sign Language & Linguistics, 2:2, 115-185.