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Selected publications

Johnston, T., & Schembri, A. 2007. Auslan (Australian Sign Language): An Introduction to Sign Language Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Johnston, T., Vermeerbergen, M., Schembri, A., Leeson, L. 2007. “Real data are messy”: Considering cross-linguistic analysis of constituent ordering in Australian Sign Language (Auslan), Vlaamse Gebarentaal (VGT), and Irish Sign Language (ISL). In P. Perniss, R. Pfau & M. Steinbach (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Sign Languages: A Cross-linguistic Perspective, Mainz, Germany, March 25-27, 2004 (pp. 163-205). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Schembri, A., & Johnston, T. 2007. Sociolinguistic Variation in the Use of Fingerspelling in Australian Sign Language: A Pilot Study. Sign Language Studies, 7(3).

de Beuzeville, L., & Johnston, T. 2007. The role of visual representation in a signed language: evidence from native signing deaf children acquiring Auslan (Australian Sign Language). In S. Buescher & K. Holley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth High Desert Linguistics Conference, November 4-6, 2004, University of New Mexico (Vol. 6, pp. 109-120). Albuquerque, NM: High Desert Linguistics Society.

Johnston, T. 2006. Response to Comments on "W(h)ither the Deaf Community: Population, Genetics, and the Future of Austalian Sign Language". Sign Language Studies, 6(2), 225-243.

Johnston, T., & Schembri, A. 2006. Issues in the creation of a digital archive of a signed language. In L. Barwick & N. Thieberger (Eds.), Sustainable data from digital fieldwork (pp. 7-16). Sydney: University of Sydney.

Schembri, A., Johnston, T., & Goswell, D. 2006. NAME dropping: Location variation in Australian Sign Language. In C. Lucas (Ed.), Multilingualism and sign languages: From the great plains to Australia:. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.

Johnston, T. 2006. W(h)ither the Deaf Community? Population, Genetics, and the Future of Australian Sign Language. Sign Language Studies, 6(2), 137-173 (reprinted).

Johnston, T. 2006. Sign Language: Morphology. In K. Brown (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. (pp. 324). Oxford: Elsevier.

Johnston, T. 2005. In one's own image: ethics and the reproduction of deafness. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 10(4).

Johnston, T. 2005. Auslan Signbank. http://www.auslan.org.au. Sydney: Catalyst Communications & Training, Pty Ltd.

Johnston, T. 2004. The assessment and achievement of proficiency in a Native Sign Language within a sign bilingual program: The pilot Auslan receptive skills test. Deafness and Education International, 6(2), 57-81.

Johnston, T. 2004. Sign bilingual education programs and the need for language resources. Australian Journal of Education of the Deaf, 10, 26-34.

Johnston, T. 2003. Language standardization and signed language dictionaries. Sign Language Studies, 3(4), 431-468.

Johnston, T. 2003. BSL, Auslan and NZSL: Three signed languages or one? In A. Baker & B. van den Bogaerde & O. Crasborn (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. Hamburg: Signum Verlag.

Johnston, T., & Schembri, A. (Eds.). 2003. The Survival Guide to Auslan: a beginner's pocket dictionary of Australian Sign Language. Sydney: North Rocks Press.

Johnston, T., Leigh, G., & Foreman, P. 2002. The implementation of the principles of sign bilingualism in a self-described sign bilingual program: Implications for the evaluation of language outcomes. Australian Journal of Education of the Deaf, 8, 38-46.

Johnston, T. 2002. The Representation of English using Auslan: Implications for deaf bilingualism and English literacy. Australian Journal of Education of the Deaf, 8, 23-37.

Schembri, A., Adam, R., Wigglesworth, G., Johnston, T., Barker, R., & Leigh, G. 2002. Issues in development of the Test Battery for Auslan Morphology and Syntax Project. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 7(1), 18-40.

Johnston, T. 2001. The lexical database of Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Sign Language & Linguistics, 4(1/2), 145-169. (Special edition: “Databases, transcription and tagging tools”).

Johnston, T., Thornton, D., & Napier, J. 2001. Discovering Auslan: A beginner's dictionary of Australian Sign Language. [CD-ROM]. Sydney: Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.

Johnston, T. 2001. Nouns and verbs in Auslan (Australian Sign Language): an open and shut case? Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 6(4), 235-257.

Schembri, A., Wigglesworth, G., Johnston, T., Leigh, G., Adam, R., & Barker, R. 2000. The Test Battery for Australian Sign Language Morphology and Syntax Project: Noun-Verb Pairs in Auslan. In A. Schembri & J. Napier & R. Beattie & G. Leigh (Eds.), Deaf Studies, Sydney 1998: Selected papers from the Australasian Deaf Studies Research Symposium, Rewnick College, August 22-23, 1998 (pp. 99-118). Sydney: North Rocks Press.

Johnston, T., & A. Schembri. 1999. On Defining Lexeme in a Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics. 2, (1): 115-185.

Johnston, T. 1998. Signs of Australia: a new dictionary of  Auslan. Sydney: North Rocks Press. (603 pp.)

Johnston, T. 1997. Signs of Australia on CD-ROM: a dictionary of  Auslan. Sydney: North Rocks Press. A Multimedia Dictionary for Windows (Version 1.0).

Johnston, T. 1996. Function and medium in the forms of linguistic expression found in a sign language. In W. H. Edmondson & R. B. Wilbur (Eds.), International Review of Sign Linguistics (Vol. 1, pp. 57-94). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Johnston, T. 1994. Australian Sign Languages. In Asher, R. E. (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, pp. 3922-3923. Oxford, New York: Pergamon Press.

Johnston, T. 1993. The Realization of the Linguistic Metafunctions in a Sign Language. In Peng, C. C., & M. A. K. Halliday (Ed.), Language Sciences (Current Research in Functional Grammar, Discourse, and Computational Linguistics, with a Foundation in Systemic Theory), pp. 317-353.

Johnston, T. 1991. Transcription and glossing of sign language texts: Examples from Auslan (Australian Sign Language). International Journal of Sign Linguistics. 2, (1): 3-28.

Johnston, T. 1991. Spatial syntax and spatial semantics in the inflection of signs for the marking of person and location in Auslan. International Journal of Sign Linguistics. 2, (1): 29-62.