SLLING-L Digest, Vol 6, Issue 6

[Denise]

PITY is a directional verb, as are a lot of ASL verbs. The sign is directed
towards the object of pity; therefore I can experience pity by having the
sign made towards me or the sign is directed towards the person being
pitied. It gets a bit complicated to explain in 2 dimension/print.

 

Denise Wetzler, M. Ed.

ASL Interpreter

Nationally Certified,

Arizona Licensed

 

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Subject: [SLLING-L] Re: SLLING-L Digest, Vol 6, Issue 6

 

Mark,

 



A sign that does not move in space can nevertheless mark agreement with a 
spatial location, by its orientation and possibly its location as well.
Example:
ASL PITY (open-8 handshape, palm toward object, middle finger repeatedly
bending).

Clarification of Denise's answer: in ASL, *many* verbs move [in space], but
by 
no means all of them.

 

Wouldn't ASL's PITY be an indicating verb? I understand that indicating
verbs mean the ones that *move* and have a connection with the object or
that the location has meaning. However, with ASL PITY it still shows that
the object is in agreement here thus it is still considered a move, although
it is not seen. It is like the BE-AT verbs that have the movement root but
the object does not move. It is still a movement.  

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University of California, Davis 

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