German Sign Language and
Communication of the Deaf
Photo: UHH/Denstorf
25 April 2024, by Pamela Sundhausen
Photo: Cornelia Loos
In March and April, our colleague Cornelia Loos taught an intensive linguistics course at the Universidad de la República (UdelaR) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Cornelia currently heads a DFG-funded research project on simultaneity in classifier constructions and focused on simultaneity in sign languages more broadly during her course in Montevideo. At the same time, she presented on the DGS corpus project (DGS-Korpus) as well as on the interpreter training program at the IDGS, and discussed some of her research projects with researchers in the psychology department. The lively discussions with deaf and hearing students majoring in sign language interpreting at UdelaR were both linguistically instructive for all parties as well as culturally enriching. At the end of the course, students presented their findings on simultaneity in Uruguayan Sign Language (LSU) over German potato salad and Uruguayan mate tea.