Meet the Authors Webinar: An Emerging SELF-the copula cycle in American Sign Language 

The July 2022 webinar features authors Tory Sampson (UC San Diego) and Rachel Mayberry (UC San Diego), authors of “An Emerging SELF: The Copula Cycle in American Sign Language,” available in the most recent edition of Language. The paper documents the emergence of the copula-a word meaning to be (e.g. is, was, are, were)-in ASL, something that has been overlooked in previous linguistic analyses.
(Captions edited by Tran Tuong)