Have and BE verbs

[James MacFarlane]

Adam,

Is there also a sign in BSL which is glossed as HAVE (its a 5 hs to S hs,
upturned palm)?  In the Brien dictionary it says that "if an E handshape is
used and the movement is sharp and repeated, while the top teeth close
repeatedly against the lower lip, the sign produced is  THERE-IS".  Or is
this the same sign you referenced below?  If its not, could you point me to
a description of the two signs?

Thanks in advance,


--
James MacFarlane
University of New Mexico
Department of Linguistics




> From: "Adam Schembri, Deaf Studies" <Adam.Schembri at bristol.ac.uk>
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:05:47 +0000
> To: "For the discussion of linguistics and signed languages."
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> BSL and Auslan both use HAVE in the same way as LSQ. To my knowledge,
> there are two variants of the BSL sign TO-EXIST (one with a 5
> handshape and one with an A handshape), but Chris is right to suggest
> that they are not used as a copula.
>
> Adam
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> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 09:44:25 +0100 Onno Crasborn
> <o.crasborn at LET.KUN.NL> wrote:
>