nondominant handshapes

[Alysse Rasmussen]

Petra,

> 2) For those of you who work on or use ASL:
> can any of you think of examples of type 3 signs with nondominant
> handshapes other than those basic seven?  I have seen variants of BERRY
> (or was it CHERRY?) with an extended pinky (I) on the nondominant hand
> instead of a 1, and I know that there is an older form of FINAL that
> I've seen used from time to time which uses an I with a 1 on the dominant
> hand.  Can any of you think of more examples? (I know they are rare!)

I think I know the answer already but just to make sure, you are excluding classifiers and classifier predicates, correct?

Sarah

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