In sign languages

Wilson, M., and Emmorey, K. (1998b). Modality matters spatial coding in working memory for signs. Paper presented at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Washington, D.C., November. 

From the dust on his shoulder, I could tell that he was in the process of ferrying firewood, of which several bales had been lying down at the quay. I have seen him run all the way upstairs with a load I can barely move. As I mentioned earlier, if Bruno were twins, they would still be too big. Sighting me, he grinned even wider and cracked his usual Alfeo joke, which is to pick me up and kiss me on the forehead. Resistance is futile. I have very rarely seen Bruno anything but happy, but when vexed he ranks with the primeval forces of nature. The Maestro invented a sign language for him and a written equivalent, so he can converse with us and even write us simple notes. In consequence, he absolutely worships the... 

Only the skilled adept could make sense out of the maze of strange pictures and symbols which filled the writings of early chemistry. The alchemists had couched their ideas in an obscure sign language. Perhaps it did not require omniscience to understand that a group of dots arranged in a heap represented sand. Maybe the connoiseur of wine knew that this... 

Spatial locations within signing space are not limited to representing the physical locations of objects or people. Data from ASL and other signed languages presented in Sections 6.3 to 6.5 will illustrate how... 

Engberg-Pedersen (1993) also observed a mixed time line for Danish Sign Language which is a mixture of the deictic, anaphoric, and sequencing lines. The mixed time line is used when expressing a sequence of moments in time or a period of time seen from a point before its start (p. 88). However, whether this time line exists for ASL is not clear. 

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