Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Notational conventions -- Can't you see the difference? Sources of variation -- in sign language structure -- Occurrence of mouthings in American Sign Language: -- A preliminary study -- Do all pronouns point? Indexicality of first person -- plural pronouns in BSL and ASL -- Negation in Jordanian Sign Language: A -- cross-linguistic perspective -- On the syntax of negation and modals in Catalan -- Sign Language and German Sign Language -- 'Real data are messy': Considering cross-linguistic -- analysis of constituent ordering in Auslan, VGT, and ISL -- Cross-linguistic comparison of interrogatives in -- Croatian, Austrian, and American Sign Languages -- The expression of modal meaning in German Sign -- Language and Irish Sign Language -- Reported action in Nicaraguan and American Sign -- Languages: Emerging versus established systems -- Grammaticalization of auxiliaries in sign -- languages -- The possible range of variation between sign -- languages: Universal Grammar, modality, and typological aspects -- Backmatter