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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. Current grammatical knowledge about particular sign languages is fragmentary and of varying reliability, and it appears scattered in scientific publications where the description is often intertwined with the analysis. In general, comprehensive grammars are a rarity. The SignGram Blueprint is an innovative tool for the grammar writer: a full-fledged guide to describing all components of the grammars of sign languages in a thorough and systematic way, and with the highest scientific standards.The work builds on the existing knowledge in Descriptive Linguistics, but also on the insights from Theoretical Linguistics. It consists of two main parts running in parallel: the Checklist with all the grammatical features and phenomena the grammar writer can address, and the accompanying Manual with the relevant background information (definitions, methodological caveats, representative examples, tests, pointers to elicitation materials and bibliographical references). The areas covered are Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Syntax and Meaning. The Manual is endowed with hyperlinks that connect information across the work and with a pop-up glossary.The SignGram Blueprint will be a landmark for the description of sign language grammars in terms of quality and quantity.

Linguistics --- Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication --- Descriptive Linguistics. --- Grammaticography. --- Sign Language Description. --- Sign Language Grammar.

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Sign languages and spoken languages have an equal capacity to communicate our thoughts. Beyond this, however, while there are many similarities, there are also fascinating differences, caused primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some important social differences. The articulators are more visible and use larger muscles with consequent greater effort. It is difficult to visually attend to both a sign and an object at the same time. Iconicity is more systematic and more available in signs. The body, especially the face, plays a much larger role in sign. Sign languages are more frequently born anew as small groups of deaf people come together in villages or schools. Sign languages often borrow from the written form of the surrounding spoken language, producing fingerspelling alphabets, character signs, and related signs. This book examines the effects of these and other differences using observation, experimentation and theory. The languages examined include Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American sign languages, and language situations include home signers and small village signers, children, gesturers, adult signers, and non-native signers.

Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology, Comparative. --- Sign language -- Grammar, Comparative. --- Sign language -- History. --- Sign language - Phonology, Comparative. --- Sign language -- Variation. --- Sign language. --- Sign language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Phonology, Comparative --- Phonology, Comparative. --- Comparative phonology --- Contrastive phonetics --- Contrastive phonology --- Phonetics, Contrastive --- Phonology, Contrastive --- Deaf --- Gesture language --- Contrastive linguistics --- Language and languages --- Gesture --- Signs and symbols --- Phonetics. --- Phonology. --- Sign Language. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Sign language - Phonology, Comparative --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology, Comparative