Wendy Sandler

Wendy Sandler is an American-Israeli linguist who is a leading researcher on the phonology of Sign Languages.

Sandler earned her PhD in linguistics from the University of Texas-Austin in 1987, with a dissertation entitled "Sequentiality and simultaneity in American Sign Language." A revised version of her dissertation was published in 1989 under the title, "Phonological Representation of the Sign: Linearity and Nonlinearity in Sign Language Phonology."

After her dissertation she took up a position at the University of Haifa, Israel, where she is now Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature. She is also the Founding Director of the Sign Language Research Lab there.

Sandler has co-written a book on Israeli Sign Language with Irit Meir (Meir & Sandler 2007). With Diane Lillo-Martin she has co-authored a standard linguistic introduction to the phonology and syntax of American Sign Language (Sandler & Lillo-Martin 2006).

In collaboration with Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir and Carol Padden she has made fundamental contributions to the investigation of the emergence of language with her research on Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language. This research is featured in Talking Hands, by Margalit Fox.

She currently (2014-2019) leads a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant entitled, "The Grammar of the Body: Revealing the Foundations of Compositionality in Human Language" (GRAMBY).

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