From May 3-5 a group of the DGS-Korpus team (Anke Müller, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, Sabrina Wähl) attended the international conference “Iconicity in Language and Literature, ILL-12” in Lund. Gabriele and Sabrina gave a presentation about the iconic motivation that underlies conventional DGS-signs, the title was: “Where Frozen Signs Reclaim Iconic Ground – Iconic Modification in German Sign Language (DGS)".