My research interests lie within general, comparative linguistics with a main focus on sign language linguistics. In my research, I use quantitative methods to explore and compare language structure from a cognitive–functional perspective, often with corpus or experimental data.

I am the chair of the sign language research group TEIKN: https://www.uib.no/lle/169904/forskergruppen-teikn

Academic article

• Börstell, Carl (2024). Better letter: Iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language. (external link)
• Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria; Miestamo, Matti; Börstell, Carl (2024). A cross-linguistic study of lexical and derived antonymy. (external link)
• Börstell, Carl Anders (2024). Finding continuers in Swedish Sign Language. (external link)
• Börstell, Carl Anders; Schembri, Adam; Crasborn, Onno (2024). Sign duration and signing rate in British Sign Language, Dutch Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language. (external link)
• Börstell, Carl Anders (2023). Lexical comprehension within and across sign languages of Belgium, China and the Netherlands. (external link)

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

• Börstell, Carl (2024). Evaluating the Alignment of Utterances in the Swedish Sign Language Corpus. (external link)
• Börstell, Carl (2024). How to Approach Lexical Variation in Sign Language Corpora. (external link)
• Börstell, Carl Anders (2023). Extracting Sign Language Articulation from Videos with MediaPipe. (external link)
• Börstell, Carl (2023). Ableist Language Teching over Sign Language Research. (external link)
• Börstell, Carl (2022). Introducing the signglossR Package. (external link)
• Börstell, Carl (2022). Searching and utilizing corpora. (external link)

Chapter

• Kimmelman, Vadim; Börstell, Carl (2023). Word classes in sign languages. (external link)

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