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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Language varieties" 2009.10.18 (01) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div class="im">> From: R. F. Hahn <<a>sassisch@yahoo.com</a></div><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">><br>> Subject: Language varieties<div class="im"><br>>
The case of Polynesian seems to show that some change does take place in
relative isolation. </div></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What about Icelandic v/ Old Norse?</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Roger<br><br>----------<br><br>From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Hellinckx Luc</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Language varieties"<br><br></span>Beste Sandy,<div><br></div><div>On 18/10/09, at 22:17, Lowlands-L List wrote:<div><br><blockquote type="cite">
In sign languages, however, the classifier system feeds some vocabulary<br>
into the language, as the more successful classifier expressions become<br>
widely recognised and then gradually become more and more like lexical<br>
signs.<br>
<br>
Take, for example, an elephant: when something like this is a new idea<br>
it tends to get fully described in a sign language: the way of walking,<br>
the tusks, the ears, the trunk. If it becomes well used, then some of<br>
this is dropped and you may find the classifier expression for the trunk<br>
alone being used to sign "elephant". Lexical signs tend to be of the<br>
form hold-movement-hold and be signed in a restricted space, so if the<br>
"trunk" classifier is more complex than this then it tends to get<br>
simplified until it becomes a structurally well-behaved sign.</blockquote><br></div><div>If
an elephant gets narrowed down to its trunk ("pars pro toto"), how do
you distinguish between the trunk of an elephant and the trunk of a
mammoth in sign language?</div><div><br></div><div>Kind greetings,</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</div></font></div><br><span class="gI"><br><br></span></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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