<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br><br>I was wondering whether anyone knew of signed languages in which the signs for SAME, SIMILAR or IDENTICAL can mark agreement with the elements they are equating, as ASL SAME does.<br><br>For those unfamiliar with it, in ASL a Y handshape can move between two indices in space to indicate that their referents are similar, a-SAME-b (especially when one of them is the signer, 1-SAME-2, in a construction meaning ME-TOO or SAME-HERE); or, alternatively, the sign can move to a lesser degree in neutral space without agreeing with any object, in similar fashion to a 'plain verb'.<br>
<br>I have not been able to find anything about this in the literature and I'd be curious to know if a similar pattern exists in other languages.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Itamar<br><br>-- <br>phd student, nyu linguistics<br>
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