Talk:American Sign Language

Linquist William Stokoe

I don't believe William (bill) Stokoe was a Linquist. He certainly was not hired as Linquist when he started his work at Gallaudet. He was hired as an English teacher. So when he first saw Sign Language it wasn't through the lens of a linguist it was as an English teacher. He studied with two Linquist while Gallaudet which was part of his interest in the language. I don't believe he had a degree in linguistics therefor I don't think he could be identified as Linquist William Stokoe.

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American Sign Language

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Result: Delisted. TompaDompa (talk) 20:39, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Lots of uncited statements in the "Morphology" section. Z1720 (talk) 02:57, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

It seems most of the uncited material was added in this one edit in April 2023. Maybe someone more knowledgeable about ASL or more familiar with the sourcing could try rescuing some of that, but if not it could just be deleted. Erinius (talk) 12:58, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Deleted it. Erinius (talk) 14:56, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

• @Erinius: Thanks for doing that. There are a couple of other uncited statements in the article. Would you be willing to look at those? If you'd like I can add citation needed templates to the article. Z1720 (talk) 15:14, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

  I probably won't find the time to do so anytime soon, sorry. Erinius (talk) 21:47, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

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Wiki Education assignment: Rhetorical Traditions

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Linguistics Proseminar Class 2026 Update

Hi all!

I am a part of a Proseminar Linguistics graduate class at Gallaudet University. As a part of our class, we are working to update/edit some pages that pertain to the Linguistics of American Sign Language. I, along with my colleages @DeafLinguist and @AmeslanLinguist are looking forward to becoming part of the Wikipedia community! @AmeslanLinguist has an interest in metaphor, depiction and cognitive linguistics in American Sign Language, and @DeafLinguist and I have interest in ASL Phonology and Language Documentation.

I am thinking of starting small with the "fingerspelling" section, updating and adding more relevant resources (currently the sources are from a website/blog and an ASL dictionary) and expanding upon the various uses of fingerspelling. I plan to work on the changes this week so I'm opening it up for discussion in case there are any objections before I post. Thanks so much and looking forward to working on this page. RollForResearchAssistance (talk) 23:21, 16 June 2026 (UTC)