Papers and chapters
- Kimmelman, Vadim & Carl Börstell. To appear. Word classes in sign languages. In Eva van Lier (ed.), Handbook of Word Classes. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Expected 2022). [ bib | pdf ]
- Börstell, Carl. 2022. Searching and utilizing corpora. In Julie Hochgesang & Jordan Fenlon (eds.), Signed Language Corpora, 90–127. [Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Vol. 25]. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. [ http | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl. 2022. Introducing the signglossR Package. In Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch & Marc Schulder (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)], 16–23. Marseille: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [ pdf | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl & Ryan Lepic. 2020. Spatial metaphors in antonym pairs across sign languages. Sign Language & Linguistics 23(1–2): 112–141. [ http | bib ]
- Gonga, Aurélia Nana Gassa, Onno Crasborn, Carl Börstell & Ellen Ormel. 2020. Comparing IS and NGT Interpreting Processing Time: A case study. In: McDermid, Campbell, Suzanne Ehrlich & Ashley Gentry (eds.), Proceedings of the 2019 WASLI Conference: Honouring the Past, Treasuring the Present, Shaping the Future, 74–95. Paris: WASLI. [ pdf | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl, Onno Crasborn & Lori Whynot. 2020. Measuring Lexical Similarity across Sign Languages in Global Signbank. In Mayumi Bono, Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)], 21–26. Marseille: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [ pdf | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl, Tommi Jantunen, Vadim Kimmelman, Vanja de Lint, Johanna Mesch & Marloes Oomen. 2019. Transitivity prominence within and across modalities. Open Linguistics 5: 666--689. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0037 [ http | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl. 2019. Differential object marking in sign languages. Glossa 4(1): 3. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.780 [ http | bib ]
- Östling, Robert, Carl Börstell & Servane Courtaux. 2018. Visual Iconicity across Sign Languages: Large-Scale Automated Video Analysis of Iconic Articulators and Locations. Frontiers in Psychology 9: 725. [ http | bib ]
- Kankkonen, Nikolaus R., Thomas Björkstrand, Johanna Mesch & Carl Börstell. 2018. Crowdsourcing for the Swedish Sign Language Dictionary. In Mayumi Bono, Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch & Yutaka Osugi (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Involving the Language Community [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)], 171–176. Miyazaki: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [ pdf | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl. 2017. Types and trends of name signs in the Swedish Sign Language community. SKY Journal of Linguistics, vol. 30:2017: 7–34. [ pdf | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl. 2017. Object marking in the signed modality: Verbal and nominal strategies in Swedish Sign Language and other sign languages. [Dissertation abstract]. Sign Language & Linguistics 20(2): 279–287. [ http | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl & Robert Östling. 2017. Iconic locations in Swedish Sign Language: Mapping form to meaning with lexical databases. In Jörg Tiedemann (ed.), Proceedings of the 21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2017), NEALT Proceedings Series 29, 221–225. Gothenburg: Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet (ACL Anthology). [ pdf | bib ]
- Östling, Robert, Carl Börstell, Moa Gärdenfors & Mats Wirén. 2017. Universal Dependencies for Swedish Sign Language. In Jörg Tiedemann (ed.), Proceedings of the 21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2017), NEALT Proceedings Series 29, 303–308. Gothenburg: Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet (ACL Anthology). [ pdf | bib ]
- Meir, Irit, Mark Aronoff, Carl Börstell, So-One Hwang, Deniz İlkbaşaran, Itamar Kastner, Ryan Lepic, Adi Lifshitz Ben Basat, Carol Padden & Wendy Sandler. 2017. The effect of being human and the basis of grammatical word order: Insights from novel communication systems and young sign languages. Cognition 158 (January 2017): 189–207. [ http | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl, Thomas Hörberg & Robert Östling. 2016. Distribution and duration of signs and parts of speech in Swedish Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics 19(2): 143–196. [ http | pdf | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl, Ryan Lepic & Gal Belsitzman. 2016. Articulatory plurality is a property of lexical plurals in sign language. In Peter Lauwers & Marie Lammert (eds.), Lexical plurals and beyond: Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39(2): 391–407. [ http | pdf | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl. 2016. Review of Pfau, Roland, Markus Steinbach & Annika Herrmann (eds.), "A matter of complexity: Subordination in sign languages." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 39(3): 311–317. [ http | bib ]
- Bjerva, Johannes & Carl Börstell. 2016. Morphological complexity influences Verb–Object order in Swedish Sign Language. In Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi, Thomas François & Philippe Blache (eds.), Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC) [26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016)], 137–141. Osaka: Japan. [ pdf | bib ]
- Lepic, Ryan, Carl Börstell, Gal Belsitzman & Wendy Sandler. 2016. Taking meaning in hand: Iconic motivations for two-handed signs. Sign Language & Linguistics 19(1): 37–81. [ http | pdf | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl & Robert Östling. 2016. Visualizing lects in a sign language corpus: Mining lexical variation data in lects of Swedish Sign Language. In Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen & Johanna Mesch (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)], 13–18. Portorož: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [ pdf | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl, Mats Wirén, Johanna Mesch & Moa Gärdenfors. 2016. Towards an annotation of syntactic structure in Swedish Sign Language. In Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen & Johanna Mesch (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)], 19–24. Portorož: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [ pdf | bib ]
- Östling, Robert, Carl Börstell & Lars Wallin. 2015. Enriching the Swedish Sign Language Corpus with part of speech tags using joint Bayesian word alignment and annotation transfer. In Beáta Megyesi (ed.), Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2015), NEALT Proceedings Series 23, 263–268. Vilnius: Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet (ACL Anthology). [ pdf | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl & Ryan Lepic. 2014. Commentary on Kita, van Gijn & van der Hulst (1998). Sign Language & Linguistics 17(2): 241–250. [ http | bib ]
- 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. In Onno Crasborn, Eleni Efthimiou, Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Jette Kristoffersen & Johanna Mesch (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)], 7–10. Reykjavík: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [ pdf | bib ]
- Börstell, Carl, Wendy Sandler & Mark Aronoff. 2014. Sign Language Linguistics. In Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online: Linguistics. Oxford University Press. [ http | bib ]