@InProceedings{bjerva-borstell:2016:CL4LC,
  author    = {Bjerva, Johannes  and  B\"{o}rstell, Carl},
  title     = {Morphological Complexity Influences Verb-Object Order in Swedish Sign Language},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC)},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {137--141},
  abstract  = {Computational linguistic approaches to sign languages could benefit from
	investigating how complexity influences structure.
	We investigate whether morphological complexity has an effect on the order of
	Verb (V) and Object (O) in Swedish Sign Language (SSL), on the basis of
	elicited data from five Deaf signers.
	We find a significant difference in the distribution of the orderings OV vs.
	VO, based on an analysis of morphological weight.
	While morphologically heavy verbs exhibit a general preference for OV,
	humanness seems to affect the ordering in the opposite direction, with [+human]
	Objects pushing towards a preference for VO.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/W16-4116}
}