How to write verbal inflection systematically

[Charles Butler]

For touching the body, one uses a contact star, for touching a point in space, one uses a tension marker.
Touching a point in space is usually shown by showing a tension marker to show that the sign stops at a fixed point in space.

I think that this will carry your verbal morphology pretty easily.  This shows both a single hand and two hands stopping at a point in space.

The tension marker 

Example 1) His (below), the short arrow moves and the abrupt stop in space is shown by the tension marker. 

Example 2) Clock (below).  The two hands mark an object in space.  The placement in space uses a tension marker.  

The tension marker can be used if one feels that one must show the abrupt stop of the sign.  Else the length of an arrow usually shows the approximate location.  

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less006.html


Here is you (formal) with the hand pointing forward, using only a tension marker to indicate location in space.  This formal sign uses the left hand to form "you" and the right hand to indicate the "person" being honored. 


you formal you respectfully    

   

Here is you (several of you) in front of the reader.



you plural (right)
they (right), you all        
Sign: Reader
Source: Valerie Sutton
Modified: September 18, 2008 08:39
Puddle page 5237 

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From: MARIA AZZOPARDI <maria.azzopardi at um.edu.mt>
To: SignWriting List <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Sent: Fri, November 13, 2009 8:04:33 AM
Subject: [sw-l] How to write verbal inflection systematically

Dear friends,

I was wondering whether anyone has 'set-up' a kind of system of writing
verbal morphology? Naturally each sign language may have different rules -
but how do you encode those rules into SignWriting.

I've just been thinking about CL movement-verbs that can move to different
points in space. In LSM (on the level of neutral space, ie. not below or
above the neutral space) CL movement-verbs can move to 4 distinct points
in space - these points are

1) right infront of the signer (YOU)
2) touching the signer (I, ME)
3) to the left of the signer (3RD PERS subj/obj)
4) to the right of the signer (3RD PERS subj/obj)

these could be plural points in which case it would be

1) a couple of points right infront of the signer (YOU subj/obj plu)
2) a couple of points around and touching signer (WE, US)
3)a couple of points to the left (THEY, THEM)
4) a couple of points to the right (THEY, THEM)

Now for the left and right points it's quite easy to encode using
signwriting - but I'm finding difficulty to show in signwriting the
difference between points 1 and 2)

Hope this isn't too confusing!

Maria




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