help with writing an ASL sentence for an academic paper

[Adam Frost]

I personally had a hard time thinking of how to write this sentence into ASL since "written" is in the passive form and ASL syntax handles passive statements in a very different fashion than most people would think. I was trying to think how I would have signed the same concept were I talking with my friends. I couldn't really think how I would do it. I did, however, come up with the writing. (And it isn't that much different from the sentence that Nancy wrote, albeit not expanding on "ASL" or shortening "SignWriting".)

	

Glossing of the above statement:
THIS/HERE ASL EXAMPLE, WRITE WITH SIGNWRITING.

The first 3 signs are all topicalized by the raised eyebrows followed by a pause to indicate the main idea of the clause. The last 3 signs are added information about the what kind of ASL example it is: a writing in SignWriting.

Adam

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Courtesy of SignBank.org

On Sep 7, 2013, at 4:41 PM, maria galea wrote:

> Dear list members particularly ASL users,
> 
> A friend of mine who happens to be a linguist in the field of writing systems of the world is hoping to include the mentioning of SignWriting as a writing system of the world, and he has asked if someone could translate the following sentence into ASL SignWriting:
> 
> "This is an American sign language example written with SignWriting "
> 
> If you could add sign-to-meaning correspondences, syntactic factors, and lexical selection considerations would be helpful for him.
> 
> Thank you! It would be great if SignWriting makes its way into the academic field of writing systems, so thank you very much for helping out with this (i can't do it myself, because I'm not an ASL user)
> 
> best regards to everyone!
> maria
> 
> 

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