tense in sign languages

[Tanada Shigeru]

This is Shigeru Tanada.
I'm Deaf in Japan, Tokyo.

"po" is not a past tense marker at least.
I think have a past tense marker, signalled by the mouth going "pa".

Susan Fischer wrote:
>Nihonsyuwa seems to have a past tense marker, signalled by the mouth
>going "po".  It is distinct from the signed Japanese "ta" as well as
>from the completive marker analogous to "finish".  However, I do not
>know whether it is obligatory.
>Susan Fischer
>
>James T. Myers wrote:
>
>>A colleague of mine asked me to post a (perhaps naive) question to the
>>list:  Is there any sign language that unambiguously has grammatical
>>tense?  Apparently the case in ASL is somewhat unclear.  Thanks.
>>
>>James Myers
>>Graduate Institute of Linguistics
>>National Chung Cheng University
>>Min-Hsiung, Chia-Yi  621
>>TAIWAN, ROC
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>>
>
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>Susan Fischer
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