Victoria Nyst
Senior University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. V.A.S. Nyst
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2208
- v.a.s.nyst@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4671-5349
Victoria Nyst is a university lecturer whose research interests include sign language documentation and description, lexicography, linguistic iconicity, and the gesture-sign language interface. She is a member of the Departmental Teaching Committee for the BA Linguistics.
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Funding for science communication on deaf community and on losing your way -
Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation' -
Vici grants for seven researchers from Leiden University -
World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL): A conference like no other -
Celebrating 50 years of African Languages and Linguistics in Leiden -
Parts of LUCL have ground to a halt -
Learning African sign languages via a video app -
First ever summer school in Africa for and by deaf academics -
First pan-African summer school for deaf academics -
Shower of prizes at the World Cultural Council ceremony in Leiden -
Come to the award ceremony of the World Cultural Council -
Poems in sign language -
Large Vidi subsidies for 5 humanities scholars -
3 Humanities scholars receive Special Recognition Award -
WCC award ceremony: Distinctions for leading scientists -
LUF lustrum grants: research into lethal violence and deaf families in Africa -
Veni grants 2012
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Veni grants for 6 young researchers of Humanities
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My name is Victoria (name sign), V-I-C-T-O-R-I-A N-Y-S-T
I work at Leiden University, doing research on sign languages in Africa.
Research projects
- 2017 - 2022 From Gesture to Language
- 2017 - 2021 Exploring new methods in comparing sign language corpora
- 2017 - 2019 Language socialization in deaf families in Africa
- 2012 - 2016 The role of hearing signers in the development of channel specific structures in sign languages of deaf communities
- 2009 – 2012 Documentation and analysis of West African Sign Languages – Leiden University
- 2007 – 2010 Projet LaSiMa: documentation and description of Langue des Signes Malienne – Leiden University
- 2000 – 2007 Descriptive analysis of Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana) – University of Amsterdam
- 1997 – 1999 Variation in Handshape in Ugandan Sign Language – Leiden University
Dissemination
A webportal for African Sign Language presenting the corpora of four African sign languages developed at the University of Leiden and brings together general information on African sign languages:
www.africansignlanguages.org
An e-group discussing issues related to Deaf Studies in Africa:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/DeafStudies-Africa/info
Organization of international meetings on African sign languages, see:
www.africansignlanguages.org/researchrecherche/events/
Wall poem in Sign Language of the Netherlands.
World Cultural Council (WCC) Special Recognition Award
3 Humanities scholars receive Special Recognition Award
Teaching activities
Linguistic field methods, Language Typology, Introduction Languages & Cultures of Africa, Culture: Africa (BA Descriptive linguistics & Languages and cultures of Africa, Leiden University, International Studies).
(Occasionally: Sign language documentation, Introduction into sign linguistics, Linguistic iconicity, Sociolinguistics of sign languages, Sign language typology).
Curriculum vitae
Born in Domburg, The Netherlands. Studied African Linguistics at Leiden University, specializing in sign languages.
Degrees held:
- Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2007 from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with a thesis on an endangered sign language from Ghana, “A descriptive analysis of Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana)”, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Anne E. Baker, Prof. Dr. Maarten Mous and Dr. Roland Pfau.
- M.A. in African Linguistics from the University of Leiden in 1999.
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- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL T&C van Afrika
- Fragkiadakis M., Nyst V.A.S. & Putten P.W.H. van der (2021), Towards a user-friendly tool for automated sign annotation: identification and annotation of time slots, number of hands, and handshape, Digital Humanities Quarterly 15(1): .
- Fragkiadakis M., Nyst V.A.S. & Nyarco M. (2021), Ghanaian Sign Language Lexicon. [dataset].
- Nyst V.A.S. (2020), Sign languages in Africa. In: Vossen R. (Ed.), Handbook of African languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Wal G.J. van der, Smits H.J., Petrollino S., Nyst V.A.S. & Kossmann M.G. (Eds.) (2020), Essays on African languages and linguistics : in honour of Maarten Mous. ASC occasional publication no. 41. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL).
- Fragkiadakis M., Nyst V.A.S. & Putten P.W.H. van der (2020), Signing as input for a dictionary query: matching signs based on joint positions of the dominant hand, Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2020 11 May 2020 - 16 May 2020. Marseille: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 69-74.
- Nyst V.A.S. & Smits H.J. (2020), Equal addenda numerals in Kordofanian: Lumun gesture number words and gestures. In: Wal G.J. van der, Smits H.J., Petrollino S., Nyst V.A.S. & Kossmann M.G. (Eds.), Essays on African languages and linguistics in honour of Maarten Mous. Leiden: Africa studies Center Leiden. 335-353.
- Nyst V.A.S. (2019), The impact of cross-linguistic variation in gesture on sign language phonology and morphology: The case of size and shape specifiers, Gesture 18(2-3): 343 - 369.
- Nyst V.A.S. (2018), Cross-linguistic variation in space-based distance for size depiction in the lexicons of six sign languages, Sign Language & Linguistics 21(2): 350-379.
- Nyst V.A.S. (2018), Cross-linguistic variation in space-based distance for size depiction in the lexicons of six sign languages, Sign Language & Linguistics 21(2): 350-379.
- Nyst V.A.S. & Tano A.J.J. (2018), Comparing body-part size and shape constructions in village sign languages with co-speech gesture, Sign Language Studies 18(4): 517-545.
- Vos C. de & Nyst V.A.S. (2018), The Time Depth and Typology of Rural Sign Languages, Sign Language Studies 18(4): 477-487.
- Nyst V.A.S. (2016), Hereditary Deafness in a Former Fishing Village on the Dutch Coast, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 21(1): 94-103.
- Nyst V. (2016), The depiction of size and shape in iconic gestures accompanying object descriptions in Anyi (Côte d’Ivoire) and in Dutch (The Netherlands), Gesture : .
- Nyst V. (2016), Size and shape depictions in the manual modality: a taxonomy of iconic devices in Adamorobe Sign Language, Semiotica : .
- Nyst V.A.S. (2015), Sign language fieldwork. In: Orfanidou E., Woll B. & Morgan G. (Eds.), Research methods in sign language studies: a practical guide. Malden: Wiley Blackwell. 107-122.
- Nyst V.A.S. (2015), The Sign Language Situation in Mali, Sign Language Studies 15(2): 126-150.
- Nyst V.A.S. (2014), The significance of African sign languages for African linguistics and sign language studies. Orie O.O. & Sanders K.W. (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 43rd annual conference on African Linguistics: Linguistic interfaces in African languages. Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Somerville MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 77-81.
- Brookes H. & Nyst V.A.S. (2014), Gesture in Sub Saharan Africa. In: Müller C., Fricke E., Cienki A. & McNeill D. (Eds.), Body – language – communication. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Nyst V.A.S. (2013), The Significance of African Sign Languages for African Linguistics and Sign Language Studies. In: Orie O.O. & Sanders K.W. (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Linguistic Interfaces in African Languages. Somerville, MA, USA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 77-81.
- Nyst V.A.S. (2013), Sign language fieldwork. In: Orfanidou E., Woll B. & Morgan G. (Eds.), Research Methods in Sign Language Studies: A Practical Guide. Malden: Wiley Blackwell.
- Nyst V.A.S., Moustapha M.M. & Sylla K. (2012), Deaf signers in the Dogon, a rural area in Mali. In: , Sign languages in village communities: anthropological and linguistic insights. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
- Nyst V.A.S. (2012), Shared sign languages. In: Pfau M., Steinbach M. & Woll B. (Eds.), Sign language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 552-574.
- Nyst V.A.S. (2012), A Reference Corpus of Adamorobe Sign Language. A digital, annotated video corpus of the sign language used in the village of Adamorobe, Ghana. [other].
- Nyst V.A.S., Magassouba M.M. & Sylla K. (2012), Un Corpus de reference de la Langue des Signes Malienne II. A digital, annotated video corpus of local sign language use in the Dogon area of Mali. [other].
- Nyst V.A.S., Magassouba M.M. & Sylla K. (2011), Un Corpus de Reference de la Langues des Signes Malienne I. A digital, annotated video corpus of the local sign language used in Bamako and Mopti, Mali. [other].
- Nyst V.A.S. (2010), Sign languages in West Africa. In: Brentari D. (Ed.), Sign languages - a Cambridge language survey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Nyst V.A.S. (2009), Pointing out possession in Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana). In: , Possessive constructions in sign languages. Nijmegen: Ishara Press.
- Nyst V.A.S. (2008), Documenting an Endangered Sign Language: Constructing a Corpus of Langue des Signes Malienne (CLaSiMa), Proceedings of the LREC 2008. .
- Nyst V.A.S. (2007), Simultaneous constructions in Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana). In: Vermeerbergen M., Leeson L. & Crasborn O.A. (Eds.), Simultaneity in signed languages. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins.
- Nyst V.A.S. (30 March 2007), A descriptive analysis of Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana) (Dissertatie, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, University of Amsterdam) LOT dissertation series. Utrecht: LOT. Supervisor(s): Baker A.E., Mous M.P.G.M. & Pfau R.
- Nyst V.A.S. & Baker A.E. (2003), The phonology of name signs: a comparison between the Sign Languages of Uganda, Mali, Adamorobe and The Netherlands. Baker A.E., Bogaerde B. van den & Crasborn O.A. (Eds.), Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research. Selected papers from TISLR 2000. 7th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 22 July 2000 - 27 July 2000. Hamburg: Signum. 71-80.
- Blench R. & Nyst V.A.S. (30 November 2003), An unreported African sign language in Northeast Nigeria. Ogmios Newsletter.