<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There's some historical data in a paper of mine. Here's the reference, which Gallaudet library should have:<div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.1px 18.0px; text-indent: -17.0px; font: 12.0px Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Fischer, S. (1996). By the numbers: Language-Internal Evidence for Creolization. In W. Edmondson & R. Wilbur, eds, </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">International Review of Sign Linguistics, vol.1</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">. Pp. 1-22. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.</span></font></span></p><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><div>Susan D. Fischer</div><div><a href="mailto:Susan.Fischer@rit.edu">Susan.Fischer@rit.edu</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Center for Research on Language</div><div>UCSD</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span>
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<br><div><div>On Mar 29, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Julie Hochgesang wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I'm looking for historical information on numbers in ASL. I'm familiar with Liddell's work on numeral incorporation but am looking for the etymology behind the number signs themselves in ASL. If anyone could send me any references, it'd be much appreciated. <div>
<br></div><div>Best,<br>Julie<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Julie Hochgesang, MA<br>Instructor, ASL and Deaf Studies Department<div>Doctoral student, Linguistics Department<br>Gallaudet University<br><br>Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.<br>
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