<DIV>Valerie, this is one of the best discussions of "contextual" grammar in ASL that I have ever seen. It gives a context for ASL in terms of how it uses location as a pronoun and would be worth using as an example in any discussion.</DIV>
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<DIV>The next time I do a presentation, I would like to use it as an example of "grammar". Who knows if Deaf Way comes again, I may want to show this as an excellent example of context.</DIV>
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<DIV>Charles<BR><BR><B><I>Valerie Sutton <sutton@SIGNWRITING.ORG></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; WIDTH: 100%">SignWriting List<BR>July 29, 2003<BR><BR>Stefan Woehrmann wrote:<BR>> Can you please post the translation ?<BR><BR>This signing is by Kevin Clark, a native ASL signer. He did not write<BR>the SignWriting...I wrote it watching Kevin signing...It comes from a<BR>longer sentence...so this is only a portion of a sentence in ASL...and<BR>it is "very ASL"...with a totally different grammar than English...<BR><BR>Kevin was signing about the "Deaf Authors' Series"...apparently just<BR>saying "Deaf Author's Series" in ASL is complex, because they have to<BR>establish a group of people in space, namely the Deaf in this case, and<BR>then they relate to that group, pointing to it in space when<BR>necessary...So without the rest of the sentence, this will always seem<BR>a little meaningless...and I cannot find the rest of the sentence at<BR>this moment...Please do not ask me to find it right
now... ;-)<BR><BR>This portion of a sentence was placed on the CD as decoration. So I was<BR>not trying to say anything...I just wanted a sample of SignWriting for<BR>the CD decoration...<BR><BR>Here is what these signs mean:<BR><BR>1. "Really" or "truly"....<BR>2. "They possess" or, "it is their own" (notice the tension symbol<BR>which shows possession...the movement is directed towards the group of<BR>Deaf people that is established to the right-diagonal in space, and the<BR>eyegaze establishes the location of the group too...<BR>3. Deaf (he is still looking with eyegaze at the group)<BR>4. "writing" but notice that he is writing over to the left, because<BR>earlier in the sentence he had established that the "writing in ASL"<BR>was over to the left...<BR>5. "a group of articles that have been written"...he is now circling<BR>the area of writing, to show that he is talking about a body of<BR>literature...a group of articles written by Deaf people<BR><BR>Beautiful signing by Kevin!
Val ;-)<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>> ATTACHMENT part 2 image/gif x-unix-mode=0644; name=SW CDs ASL phrase.gif<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1>
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