Kinship terminology in SLs

[Ulrike Zeshan]

Another excellent recent dictionary I forgot to mention is the Ugandan Sign Language dictionary (I think 2006) by Wallin, Lutalo-Kiingi and other Ugandan colleagues.

Ulrike


Prof. Ulrike Zeshan
Director, International Centre for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Livesey House, LH212
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR12HE, UK
uzeshan at uclan.ac.uk
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>>> "Adam Frost" <adam at frostvillage.com> 05/12/08 9:20 PM >>>
As a native user and teacher of ASL, I can confirm that Mark is  
correct in that some signers distinguish between male and female  
cousins in the same male/female fashion he was talking about.

Adam

On Dec 5, 2008, at 4:26 AM, Kim Carlton Diez wrote:

> <<<I am out of practice and not at all sure of this, but I recall at  
> least some
> signers distinguishing male and female initialized 'Cousin' in this  
> way, which
> spoken/written French does (and with the same letter) but not  
> English.>>>
>
> As a certified interpreter of ASL and a budding linguist, I can  
> confirm that this is indeed correct.
> --
> Kim Carlton Diez, BA, CI & CT
>
> What lies behind us and what lies
> before us are tiny matters
> compared to what lies within us.
> Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
> -------------- Original message from "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu 
> >: --------------
>
>
> > You may already be familiar with ASL (American Sign Language)  
> kinship terms,
> > but no one has mentioned them in this thread.
> >
> > In ASL, the locations upper face (forehead to temple) and side or  
> lower face
> > (cheek to chin) are morphemes for male and female respectively,  
> originally
> > derived from the (Old French SL) signs for 'boy' and 'girl'. In  
> addition to the
> > signs for boy, girl, man, and woman, these locations are the sole  
> markers of sex
> > in the following pairs of kinship terms:
> >
> > father : mother
> > grandfather : grandmother (& "great-...")
> > son : daughter (< BOY/GIRL + BABY)
> > brother : sister (< BOY/GIRL + SAME)
> >
> > They are also used with the initialized terms
> >
> > Uncle : Aunt
> >
> > I am out of practice and not at all sure of this, but I recall at  
> least some
> > signers distinguishing male and female initialized 'Cousin' in  
> this way, which
> > spoken/written French does (and with the same letter) but not  
> English.
> >
> >
> > -- Mark A. Mandel
> > Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
> >
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