The Sign Language Analyses (SLAY) Database
Rachael Tatman · 2015
Summary. This paper describes the construction and input analysis of the Sign Language Analyses (SLAY) Database, both as it currently stands and as a guide to further expansion of the project. SLAY contains condensed cross-linguistic grammatical information from signed languages. It was designed so that the framework of the database can be expanded indefinitely to include investigations of new questions. It differs from similar projects (such as the World Atlas of Linguistic Structure (Haspelmath et al., 2005)) in that it focuses exclusively on signed languages and modality-specific grammatical questions.