big, small, tall, short

[victoria nyst]

Hello everybody,

I am describing a Ghanaian SL, called Adamorobe SL, which appears to have
fixed, standard signs for BIG, SMALL, TALL and SHORT. That is, the form of
these signs do not dependent on the kind of object they refer to. E.g 'a big
cow' & 'a big bee' are signed:
'COW BIG' and 'BEE BIG', where the sign for BIG is the same in both
sentences.

In NGT (SL of the Netherlands), the signs for 'big', 'small', 'tall' and
'short' change according  to their referent. No fixed signs for these
concepts seems to exist in NGT.

I'm curious to find out how this works for other SLs. So, my question: does
'your' SL have, apart from referent-dependent size signs, a set of fixed
signs expressing size?

Thanks in advance,
Victoria Nyst


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Drs. V.A.S. Nyst
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication
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