Recent Publications
Forthcoming
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​Loos, C. Simultaneous vs. sequential caused change-of-state events in German Sign Language (DGS): A corpus study. To appear in: Krauße, D., Czerwinski, P. & Aplonova, K. Issues in Complex Predicates: Typology, Syntax, Diachrony. De Gruyter Mouton.
Accepted
Klomp, U., Kopf, M., and C. Loos. Gender and classifiers in sign languages. To appear in Oxford Handbook of Gender and Classifiers, Niels Schiller & Tanja Kupisch (eds.), Oxford University Press.
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Loos, C. How direct is direct enough? Comparing directness constraints on resultatives in American Sign Language (ASL) and English. To appear in Serial Predicates Across Modalities, Roland Pfau, Beyza Sümer, and Cornelia Loos (eds.), Language Science Press.
2025
Lettow, I. & C. Loos. A ministry of not-so-silly walks: An investigation of the use of 1 vs. V-classifiers in representations of motion and location events in German Sign Language (DGS). Open Linguistics 11 20250049. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2025-0049
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Loos, C. and S. Repp. Beyond yes and no: Multimodal multilexical polar responses in German. Sinn und Bedeutung 29 Proceedings, 899-916.
2024
Loos, C., Steinbach, M. and S. Repp. Polar response strategies in German Sign Language (DGS). Language 100(3): 433-467.
2023
Loos, C. and D.J. Napoli. Depicting translocating motion in sign languages. Sign Language Studies 24(1).
Loos, C. and M. Schulder. Not just 'any' sign! Searching for negative polarity items in German Sign Language (DGS). Proceedings of NELS 53, https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.13110.
2022
Loos C., German A. and Meier R.P. Simultaneous structures in sign languages: Acquisition and emergence. Front. Psychol. 13:992589. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.992589
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Loos, C. Sizing up adjectives: Delimiting the adjective class in American Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics 25(1): 30-57.
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Otte, F., E. Jahn, Loos, C., J. Bleicken and A. Herrmann. The DGS corpus as a linguistic resource: student research and beyond. Linguistische Berichte 272: 445-475.
2021
Loos, C. and D.J. Napoli. Expanding Echo: Coordinated Head Articulations as Nonmanual Enhancements in Sign Language Phonology. Cognitive Science 45(5). doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12958.
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Jahn, E., G. Langer and C. Loos. Are we DONE yet? A corpus-based analysis of DONE as a sentence-boundary diagnostic in DGS. Proceedings of FEAST 2021, Hong Kong, 87-100.
2020
Loos, C., Cramer, J.M., and D.J. Napoli. Taboo terms in German Sign Language: Exploiting phonology. Cognitive Linguistics 31(1): 73-112. DOI:10.1515/cog-2018-0077
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Loos, C. Quite a mouthful: Comparing speech act verbs in Nederlandse Gebarentaal and American Sign Language. Linguistische Berichte 264: 447-493.
2018