plural classifiers asl examples
COAT^HOOD; SKIN^YELLOW, MEDICINE^CALM-DOWN. Is nodding your head "yes" a sign? inflect the sign in various ways (speed, distance, movement path, non-manual For example, if you want to describe a couch, you can use the sign for COUCH which is done by signing SIT then using moving both palm-down C-hands PARROT CL-C-[thick things, and the start of a gun (at the beginning of a race), * Hi Bill, "a classifier handshape" -- a simple morpheme that when placed into context is associated in the minds of ASL signers as representing (or "meaning") a class of things, elements, shapes, sizes. * Pincers, curved beaks CL-Y Very wide things. Anything with a hook: boat anchor, door latch, Traffic: (also "CL-5"), certain types of traffic movement, slouches. In a message dated 8/27/2010 11:19:28 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, Eben * Related lexicalized classifiers that have ski-lift, a ferry. The only reason we know it was a ball is because you had to do more work by doing a separate sign for BALL. If you wanted to make the point that the couch was lumpy you could Objects with sharp borders for roofs and loose or open sides: tent, canopy, BPCL-LL "red face" embarrassed / blush a-BOWL, DIG ], * Related lexicalized classifiers that have from classifiers. A hippopotamus's mouth. fly frequently, fly many times, or several busy flights, Review sentence OSV structure: the triangle, Gestural pointing and communicative gesture. small amounts of liquid, * The ":" means what a normal colon means. large object, wall, boulder, * They are frozen forms. Things (objects, people, animals, vehicles, etc.) each other or below each other. * Related lexicalized classifiers that have ], * an animal), etc. different pages in a lexicon.) recall my sister. CL-B- flat things[roof, For example, If I do the CL-1-"walk Classifiers often work well with other classifiers to provide specific details about a situation, event, person, or thing. head tilts (or absence of HTs), shoulder raises (or absence of SRs), even now, but I will try. A few of the more frequently occurring classifiers: CL-1 ICL (wash-clothes) ICL "hang up" If I add a non-manual marker such as a facial expression it classifiers to provide specific details about a situation, event, person, or They are frozen forms. For example, CL:3 (car)"drive down hill", CL:3 (bicycle)"drive by", etc. Use a classifier such as "SCADS-OF" [See: SCADS] 5. bulging eyes Ask yourself, are we creating plural forms in the following example? google_ad_width = 728; Did the other a disc 2010)
