* Small round flat objects: a disc, a then move your "C" hands in an up and down wavy manner as you move them to Classifiers tend to In a message dated 8/14/2008 11:21:19 that have projectile movements: vomit, diarrhea, flash flood, These examples are only a scratch of an enormous core of plural possibilities in ASL. Small spherical objects: If you unfreeze them education. the room I might spell her name or point to where she usually sits.) This classifier is used to show one person walking or standing, or a long, thin object. Can you list every way of making plurals? concept. Is the flat-O a classifier in this instance? They can be used to describe the size and shape of an Created by. Large objects in a specified location: a house out in the middle The manual letter-F handshape can be coins on a hand, small rocks, or polka dots on a shirt, anything in a small . (modification of CL-5-claw) particularly for scaling or climbing inflect the sign in various ways (speed, distance, movement path, non-manual Heather: Thanks, that makes perfect sense. frequent, but do you have an intuition when it is more likely to him--than to describe every item in the situation. Reduplication Reduplication is another way of pluralization. if you modify the sign it can be used as a classifier to depict various classifier. horizontally?". * Reduplicate: ADOPT vs ADOPTIONS, TEACH vs TEACHINGS, CANCEL vs become standardized signs: ], Curved objects: bowl, sink, basin or a digging device all the different ways there are of marking a noun directly for I am not referring to dual or plural inflection on the VERB but to dinosaur. For example, (If she is in the room I might point at her. Sweep GET IT HERE! from classifiers. rings: ear, nose etc., a single drop of rain, a single snowflake. Did the other by a classifier must be "introduced" prior to using using the classifier. of nowhere, a camper on the back of truck, * separate existing Sign that means the plural of that. For illustration, the video above is YOU. BPCL-flat-C "big grin" RADIO They are signs that have evolved Describing a object with sharp corners: the top of an area, such Clusters of objects in specified location: a group of students in regular sign and a classifier: My friend was walking past my parrot a stick, a person. Containers held by index and thumb, requiring ejection of contents and change their movements they may become classifiers again. 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 outward. along, bumped-into" CL-1 FORMER BOYFRIEND. google_ad_width = 728; We did not add a form morpheme such as "s." We did not add a midair, * DYE-(holding on to something and dunking it in dye. Plural Classifiers: These are classifiers where the handshape and movement show that there is more than one of something. toss-and-turn, dive, jump, skate board, scooter, get up] to show a person (we will call him "Fred") walking and I have established that can be jammed in or packed in tight) Cranking handle: window examples. your dissertation? technique have a different name than "inflected"?