Presentations

2025

Börstell, Carl. 2025. Identifying continuers in the Swedish Sign Language Corpus. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 15 (TISLR 15). Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Remote stage presentation)

2024

Börstell, Carl. 2024. Plural gestures: the two hands as an expression of multiplicity. LingLunch seminar series. University of Bergen, Norway. 11 December, 2024.

Börstell, Carl. 2024. Evaluating the Alignment of Utterances in the Swedish Sign Language Corpus. In Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Johanna Mesch & Marc Schulder (eds.), Proceedings of the LREC-COLING 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources, 22–31. Torino, Italy: ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL).
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Börstell, Carl. 2024. How to Approach Lexical Variation in Sign Language Corpora. In Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Johanna Mesch & Marc Schulder (eds.), Proceedings of the LREC-COLING 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources, 222–229. Torino, Italy: ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL).
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2023

Börstell, Carl. 2023. The (under-used) potential of sign language corpora. NOH-HS Nordic Sign Language Corpus Network workshop. NTNU, Trondheim. 13 October, 2023. (Invited keynote)

Simper-Allen, Pia & Carl Börstell. 2023. Lexical variation in Swedish Sign Language (STS): a pilot study. SILC seminar series, HVL, Bergen. 29 August, 2023. (Invited talk)

Börstell, Carl. 2023. Ableist Language Teching over Sign Language Research. In Workshop on Resources and Representations for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains.
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Börstell, Carl. 2023. Extracting Sign Language Articulation from Videos with MediaPipe. In Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) (NEALT Proceedings Series, No. 52), 169-178. Tórshavn, Faroe Islands: University of Tartu Library. https://aclanthology.org/2023.nodalida-1.18.
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Kimmelman, Vadim & Carl Börstell. 2023. Iconicity and sign languages. Guest lecture at the thematic day organized by the Linguistics Student Council. UiB, Bergen, Norway. (Invited talk)

Börstell, Carl. 2023. Better letter: “My alphabet is better than yours”. Norsk forskningskonferanse om tegnspråk og døvesamfunn. NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. (not presented on site)
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2022

Kimmelman, Vadim & Carl Börstell. 2022. MOTHER-FATHER or FATHER-MOTHER?: Compounds with variable order in RSL and STS. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 14 (TISLR 14). Minpaku University, Japan.
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Börstell, Carl. 2022. Introducing the signglossR Package. 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 13). (Pre-recorded talk)
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2020

Börstell, Carl & Felicia Bisnath. 2020. On islands in the sea: Swedish preposition usage with island nations. High Desert Linguistics Society 14 (HDLS 14). University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA.
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Börstell, Carl. 2020. Isn’t it iconic? (Don’t you think?). Higher Seminar in Linguistics. Stockholm University, Sweden. (Invited talk) Börstell, Carl. 2020. Isn’t it iconic? (Don’t you think?). PPLS Linguistic Circle seminar series. University of Edinburgh, UK. (Invited talk)

2019

Börstell, Carl, Onno Crasborn & Lori Whynot. 2019. True friends or false friends? Lexical similarity for predicting cross-signing success. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 13 (TISLR 13). University of Hamburg, Germany.
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Börstell, Carl, Onno Crasborn & Adam Schembri. 2019. Signs of reduction: Frequency, duration, and signing rate in three sign language corpora. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 13 (TISLR 13). University of Hamburg, Germany.
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Börstell, Carl & Ryan Lepic. 2019. Spatial metaphors in antonym pairs across sign languages. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 13 (TISLR 13). University of Hamburg, Germany.
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Börstell, Carl. 2019. Grammaticalization of differential object marking (DOM) across sign languages. Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication seminar series. University of Amsterdam, NL. (Invited talk)

Börstell, Carl. 2019. Metaphorical height contrasts across sign languages and in cross-signing. Gesture–Sign Workshop Prague 2019. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Börstell, Carl. 2019. Vertical metaphors in sign language antonyms. The 12th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature. Lund University, Sweden.

Börstell, Carl. 2019. Metaphorical height contrasts across sign languages and in cross-signing. CLS Colloquium. Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL. (Invited talk)

2018

Börstell, Carl. 2018. Iconicity of articulators and locations in 31 sign languages. Sign Pop-Up Series, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL. (Invited talk)

Börstell, Carl, Robert Östling & Servane Courtaux. 2018. Iconicity of articulators and locations in 31 sign languages. The first international workshop on cognitive and functional explorations in sign language linguistics (Sign CAFE 1), University of Birmingham, UK.

Börstell, Carl. 2018. Articulatory plurality as a universal iconic strategy. IMPRS Conference 2018. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Börstell, Carl, Tommi Jantunen, Johanna Mesch, Vadim Kimmelman, Marloes Oomen & Vanja de Lint. 2018. Transitivity prominence within and across modalities. Argument Structure across Modalities (ASAM2018) workshop. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2017

Börstell, Carl. 2017. There’s something about PERSON: Grammaticalization of DOM in sign languages. Diachrony of Differential Object Marking workshop. INaLCO, Paris, France.

Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria, Matti Miestamo & Carl Börstell. 2017. Impossible but not difficult: A typological study of lexical vs. derived antonyms. 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2017). University of Zürich, Switzerland.

Jantunen, Tommi, Johanna Mesch & Carl Börstell. 2017. GIVE or TAKE – Transitivity prominence of FinSL and SSL verbs. Corpus-based approaches to sign language linguistics: Into the second decade. University of Birmingham, UK.

Börstell, Carl, Moa Gärdenfors, Robert Östling & Mats Wirén. 2017. Approaching language technology: Annotating the Swedish Sign Language Corpus with Universal Dependencies. Corpus-based approaches to sign language linguistics: Into the second decade. University of Birmingham, UK.

2016

Börstell, Carl, Ryan Lepic & Gal Belsitzman. 2016. A show of hands: Plurality as a feature of two-handed forms in silent gesture. 7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 7). Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France.

Börstell, Carl, Mats Wirén, Johanna Mesch & Moa Gärdenfors. 2016. Towards an annotation of syntactic structure in Swedish Sign Language. 7th workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 10). Portorož, Slovenia.
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Börstell, Carl & Robert Östling. 2016. Visualizing lects in a sign language corpus: Mining lexical variation data in lects of Swedish Sign Language. 7th workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 10). Portorož, Slovenia.
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Börstell, Carl, Robert Östling, Johanna Mesch, Kristina Nilsson Björkenstam, Johan Sjons, Lars Wallin, Mats Wirén & Thomas Hörberg. 2016. Distribution and duration of signs and parts of speech in Swedish Sign Language. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 12 (TISLR 12). La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. [Awarded SLLS Best Student Presentation Prize]

Börstell, Carl, Ryan Lepic & Gal Belsitzman. 2016. Lexical plurality in sign language lexicons: It takes two! Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 12 (TISLR 12). La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
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Börstell, Carl. 2016. Taking it PERSONally: The form and function of the case-marked pronoun OBJ-PRO in Swedish Sign Language. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 12 (TISLR 12). La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
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2014

Börstell, Carl, Gal Belsitzman & Ryan Lepic. 2014. Two-handedness in gesture and sign: Comparing the silent gestures of hearing non-signers with the signs of sign language. 6th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 6). University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA. [Awarded ISGS Best Student Poster Prize]
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Börstell, Carl, Johanna Mesch & Lars Wallin. 2014. Segmenting the Swedish Sign Language Corpus: On the possibilities of using visual cues as a basis for syntactic segmentation. 6th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel [at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)]. Harpa, Reykjavík, Iceland.
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2013

Börstell, Carl. 2013. Revisiting Reduplication: Toward a description of reduplication in predicative signs in Swedish Sign Language. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 11 (TISLR 11). University College of London, London, UK.
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Lepic, Ryan, Gal Belsitzman, Carl Börstell & Wendy Sandler. 2013. Motivation in two-handed signs: A cross-linguistic investigation of word forms. Poster presented at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Linguistics 11 (TISLR 11). University College of London, London, UK. [Awarded SLLS Best Student Poster Prize]
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Lepic, Ryan, Gal Belsitzman, Carl Börstell & Wendy Sandler. 2013. Motivation in two-handed signs. Minerva-Gentner symposium: Emergent Languages and Cultural Evolution. Max Planck Gesellschaft/Minerva Foundation, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Börstell, Carl. 2013. Aspects of Swedish Sign Language reduplication. Olomouc Linguistic Colloquium 2013 (Olinco 2013). Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

2012

Börstell, Carl. 2012. Revisiting Reduplication: Toward a description of reduplication in predicative signs in Swedish Sign Language. 2nd International Graduate Student Conference on Diverse Approaches to Linguistics (IGDAL 2). Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Börstell, Carl. 2011. Negation in Swedish Sign Language. Workshop on Negation in Uralic Languages. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

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