USA: ASL grammar discussion on notepad

[Sutton Valerie]

SignWriting List
September 26, 2006

A message from Stuart Thiessen in Iowa, USA:

Good news!  Someone is using this to discuss ASL grammar with her  
class. :) I thought that was very interesting. :) So now we have a  
fun ASL grammar discussion going on with her as to whether that  
should be written as a topic marker for an "incomplete" sentence to  
be filled in by the person or as a true question being asked of the  
person.

Thought you might like that news. :)

Stuart

ASL Notepad Explanation
http://www.passitonservices.org/education/explanation.php


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Begin forwarded message:
>
> THIS MESSAGE CAME VIA WEBSITE 'CONTACT US' FORM. THE VISITOR WROTE
> THIS MESSAGE.
>
> I am sharing this pad with my ASL 1 class, so was looking at it
> closely.  On the 5th line of the pad: CONTACT HOW? You mark the
> expression as eyebrows up, I\'d think this would be eyebrows - down,
> like any Wh-question: What, where, who, why, how, how many, contact
> how?
>
> Or maybe you had a different view of the question?  I usually teach
> that the Eyebrows-up expression is used for topic markers or yes/no
> questions.
>
> Thanks for developing a fun resource!
>
> smiles
>