nondominant handshapes

[Mark A. Mandel]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Cormac Leonard wrote:

#there are a number of signs in Irish Sign Language (ISL) that use a 'U'
#handshape (index and middle fingers extended and unspread from fist) for the
#base hand configuration, including IN, SCHOOL and WAIT.

And a different handshape on the dominant hand, right? Otherwise they're
Battison's Type 2.

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania