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Day 2 of #LingCologne starts with Wendy Sandler giving her keynote on the compositionality of theatrical sign language. 
Wendy acknowledges the important work of Svetlana Dachkovsky ("our resident squintologist") who has done extensive work on squinting in Israeli SL, for example as a marker of shared information and subordinate clauses. #LingCologne
Facial actions — as a finite set — are grammatical across sign languages, and mostly correspond to spoken language intonation (mainly upper face). Thus, different parts of the body are composite pieces of the linguistic system. #LingCologne
