CPadden

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Carol Padden is Professor of Communication at University of California, San Diego, and an affiliate member of the Center for Research in Language.  Her current areas of research are comparative sign language structure, evolution of language, culture and communication. Her work on sign language structure has focused on description of forms involving interaction of grammatical structure and apparent iconicity. These include verb forms with person inflection in which path movement depicts transfer between the person of the subject and object, discourse-level use of body shifting to depict multiple subjects, and the interaction of space and grammar in complex verbs of motion and location. Current work with Mark Aronoff, Wendy Sandler and Irit Meir compares evolution of grammar in a new sign language with grammars in established sign languages. She has also written about the history of communities of deaf people in the United States dating from the early nineteenth century. She is co-author with Tom Humphries of two books on deaf culture (Harvard University Press, 1988; Harvard University Press, 2005), the most recent of which addressed the future of sign languages in the age of cochlear implants and genetic engineering. She has been the recipient of various awards including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Her research has been funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Education and the Spencer Foundation.

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