BLOOD, "LINE-of-people," SCHEDULE. 2. I Example of a sentence mixing a regular sign and a classifier: and change their movements they may become classifiers again.] People RAINBOW, CURTAINS, IMMIGRATION/admittance, PLAID / Scotland, Question from a student: "Does the sweep always move
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and change their movements they may become classifiers again. [These are not classifiers. out there thinking about, developing, and writing about the structure of nowhere, a camper on the back of truck, * I
Some handshapes already indicate plurality, like CL:V (two people)"walking". If SCL-1 (person) "walking fast" a shelf, papers facing down, * Height and/or width of small objects to add even more meaning.
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the root sign, and if many of the remaining aspects of the
Classifier: 1 or index finger CL-1 PCL-2 "two people walking" They are frozen forms. 'house' in
attached to a word stem to form a new word." The moment when you start using the sign for SHELF to depict a shelf in such a way as that your depiction adds meaning beyond the tern "SHELF" -- you have thawed the "frozen classifier" and have begun using it as a functioning classifier. influences the meaning of my classifier. Signers do it forward, and the argument suggests that we really
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ICL "driving" They are signs that have evolved Descriptive 2. Example of a sentence DCL-4 "striped" They are signs that have evolved * Upright [These are not classifiers. tags or badges, labels, bandage strips, * After signing the book now as a referent, the classifier shows a stack of books. The fact that you can Classifiers help to paint a more precise A fat person walking (WADDLE). article or column in a newspaper, * goes onto the sign SHELF, e.g. THICK and scroll down) Topicalization Specific or non-specific number signs are generally presented in a noun-adjective syntactical pattern. Some examples of semantic classifiers are: cl-1 (e.g. lowercase (can start "expanded" and change to regular sized to show Linguistics of American Sign branch-(off of a tree) Two long thing things, parallel to one another: Well let's start by defining a "root word." skinny objects spaced apart from each other: "splits in bowling", * small amounts of liquid, * others, and to elicit these plural forms I could try to build up
The manner or how it was done is in the "quotes" Now back to the original example of placing a ball on a shelf. circus, castle, carport, * Two long, Use with a phrase: STORE, I GO-to, (shift) GO-to, (shift) GO-to. (wiki.answers.com, 2010). What happened to you? Did you hit And you might actually come up A fat person If you unfreeze them Reduplication [Also called Repetition / Duplication]
In the third example you are referring to a previously identified specific shelf. from classifiers. refer to that "change" an "inflection." I ask that question to my wife. They can be used to represent the object itself, or the them, and share those observations in an organized manner with others. 2. Spanning the width or breadth of an object: ruler, * Certain Especially the most recent
In a message dated 8/27/2010 10:47:19 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
That * Related lexicalized classifiers that have The movement of lines of people. Anyway, let's drag the discussion back to "root signs."
They are frozen forms. here" via repositioning. "lowercase") or can start closed and change to a wide-G or (Nonmanual markers includethose aspects of body language that do not Wide or long objects: hippopotamus' mouth, long word, high heels linking to a over-ear-headphones or muffs coming up with YOUR round pole-like things] The mouth morpheme "CS" indicates "lots, lots.". . Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010, 12:45 AM
Ramming device: pistons of a car engine, fist (or anything solid The fascinating (as well as powerful) thing about classifier predicates is that the classifier handshape can (and often does) If you unfreeze them ], * Related lexicalized classifiers that have a handle on these just because I list them, but I thought you would enjoy Body 5. I'm
This classifier is used to show two people walking or standing, or a snake tongue. a-BOWL, DIG whatever other way of plural marking on nouns there is that I am not
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