Agreement with SAME

[Fischer Susan]

Japanese Sign Language MO/ONAJI is performed with two hands (thumb and forefinger of each hand closes and opens rapidly; hands are placed at the locations of the two arguments.

Susan D. Fischer
Susan.Fischer at rit.edu

Center for Research on Language
UCSD



On Apr 4, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Itamar Kastner wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I was wondering whether anyone knew of signed languages in which the signs for SAME, SIMILAR or IDENTICAL can mark agreement with the elements they are equating, as ASL SAME does.
> 
> For those unfamiliar with it, in ASL a Y handshape can move between two indices in space to indicate that their referents are similar, a-SAME-b (especially when one of them is the signer, 1-SAME-2, in a construction meaning ME-TOO or SAME-HERE); or, alternatively, the sign can move to a lesser degree in neutral space without agreeing with any object, in similar fashion to a 'plain verb'.
> 
> I have not been able to find anything about this in the literature and I'd be curious to know if a similar pattern exists in other languages.
> 
> Thanks,
> Itamar
> 
> -- 
> phd student, nyu linguistics
> https://files.nyu.edu/ik747/public

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