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<div>Itamar,</div>
<div>Auslan/BSL SAME/LIKE could be produced at a location between the locations associated with two referents to indicate that they are the same. Some Auslan signers also use the ASL sign you describe, in the same ways you outline below.</div>
<div>I'm interested to know why you're interested in this particular ASL sign?</div>
<div>Thanks,</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Fischer Susan <<a href="mailto:susan.fischer@RIT.EDU">susan.fischer@RIT.EDU</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>linguists interested in signed languages <<a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wed, 4 Apr 2012 20:50:13 -0700<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span><<a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: Agreement with SAME<br>
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Japanese Sign Language MO/ONAJI is performed with two hands (thumb and forefinger of each hand closes and opens rapidly; hands are placed at the locations of the two arguments.
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<div>On Apr 4, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Itamar Kastner wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Thanks,<br>
Itamar<br>
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