/3now1#/

[Nassira Nicola]

I'm guessing, based on context, that this refers to a "bent b-prime" making
contact on the forehead, although I don't have the original in front of me
either.

Hopefully this makes sense,

Nassira


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Nassira Nicola
Harvard University
Department of Linguistics
Class of 2005

nicola at fas.harvard.edu
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>From: daisuke at YAHOO.COM
>Reply-To: "For the discussion of linguistics and signed languages."
>      <SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA>
>To: SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
>Subject: /3now1#/
>Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 04:08:42 +0800
>
>Dear all,
>
>Hello.  I am reading Stokoe 1960, "Sign Language Structure", after a long
>time, and I am wondering what /3now1#/ stands for.
>
>In Section 1.0 (on page 37 in its 1993 revised edition), he explains that
>the phrase "Yes, I know him" can be expressed in 16 different ways (wow!),
>and he writes:
>
>....; but 'know' is signed by touching the tips of the fingers of the
>slightly bent hand to the forehead.  It is signed thus in isolation, that
>is, much as know is said /3now1#/ in isolation; but in sign language
>utterance 'know' may get only a slight movement upward of the bent hand.
>
>Since KNOW is not an agreeing verb but a plain verb, I presume that
>/3now1#/ is not talking about agreement; in case it were about agreement,
>"now" would be more puzzling.  Is it some convention that was used in the
>sixties?
>
>I appreciate your insights about this.
>
>
>Daisuke

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