Types Of Classifiers In Asl
"What is a classifier and how is information technology unlike from a handshape?" Handshapes are one of the 5 fundamental building blocks or parameters of a sign: Handshape, movement, location, orientation, and nonmanual markers. Yes, yes, I know there are those who will point out that some signs have more than five parameters but notice I used the discussion "primal?" Those 5 parameters are the basic categories. The fact that you can divide "not-manual markers" or other parameters upward into several smaller categories is jolly but there are notwithstanding five master parameters. (Nonmanual markers include those aspects of body language that do non involve the hands such as shoulder movements, head tilts, and facial expressions.) The handshape of a sign is literally the shape (or shapes) in which nosotros class our hand during the product of a sign. All signs accept a handshape. Classifiers are signs that utilize handshapes that are associated with specific categories (classes) of size, shape, or usage. Over time certain handshapes have been used so frequently to testify certain types of things, shapes, amounts, or sizes, that when y'all concur up or use i of those handshapes people (who know the linguistic communication) automatically call up of a particular category (or class) of: Things (objects, people, animals, vehicles, etc.) The commonly recognized handshapes that are typically used to show different classes of things, shapes, and sizes are called "classifiers." The motion and placement of a classifier handshape can exist used to convey information about the movement, type, size, shape, location or extent of the thing to which you are referring. (A referent is that which you are talking near or that to which yous are referring.) Classifiers tin aid to clarify your message, highlight specific details, and provide an efficient fashion of conveying information. Classifiers can be used to: * describe the size and shape of an object. * represent the object itself. * demonstrate how the object moves. * convey how it relates to other objects and or people. Like to pronouns, that which is beingness represented ( or described ) by a classifier must exist "introduced" prior to using using the classifier. If I'grand going to use a classifier to to talk well-nigh Jane, beginning I'll identify her in some way. (If she is in the room I might point at her. If she is not in the room I might spell her name or bespeak to where she usually sits.) Suppose I want to tell you that my sis "bumped into" her old swain yesterday? I might starting time by signing "MY SISTER" with raised eyebrows to see if yous recall my sister. Then subsequently you lot nod slightly or otherwise bespeak that you know who I'm talking nearly I might sign, YESTERDAY SHE M-A-L-L CL-ane "walking along, bumped-into" CL-1 Onetime BOYFRIEND. If I'm talking well-nigh throwing a baseball, I'll identify the sport before using a CL-iii-hook to represent the ball. C lassifiers tend to mimic the general shape and movement of the objects to which they refer. Suppose I were using a CL-O-flat handshape to represent (the head of) a dinosaur. I would bob the "head" a flake upwardly and down as I moved information technology forward to represent how the dinosaur was moving. If using that same or a similar handshape (perhaps a slightly curved paw) for a cobra, I would movement my arm in such a way every bit to mimic the cobra's side-to-side dance (or information technology's strike). Classifiers oft work well with other classifiers to provide specific details virtually a state of affairs, event, person, or thing. For example, if y'all desire to describe a couch, you can use the sign for COUCH which is done past signing Sit then using moving both palm-down C-easily outward. If you wanted to make the point that the couch was lumpy you lot could then move your "C" hands in an up and down wavy manner every bit you lot move them to the outside. Or if you wanted to draw the couch as being very long or beingness in an L-shape you lot tin move your "C" hands further apart or in an "L"-movement path. Classifiers assist to pigment a more than precise picture show of what your object looks like or of what happened. For example, suppose there was a motorcar crash, what happened to the car? Did the other driver hit you from the side, the front? What happened to yous? Did you hitting your head on the steering bike or fly through the window? The list of classifiers below is a work in progress and is therefore non complete. It is not put forth as a comprehensive list of all the classifiers that are being used in American Sign Language, or how they are beingness used. it is simply a list of some of the more common classifier handshapes. A few of the more frequently occurring classifiers: CL-ane * Long, skinny objects: most commonly, a singular person * Small cylindrical objects: sticks, pencils * Delineating ii dimensional objects: poster lath, plot of country, circle, diamond (any shape) * Trajectory paths and or connections: one mode street, two style street, intersection, brawl flying midair, a snake moving beyond a surface, tears * The mode sure animals motion: (modification CL-1>CL-X) caterpillar crawling, worm tunneling, snail crawling * Related lexicalized classifiers that take get standardized signs: CATERPILLAR, WORM, MEET, MEET-him/her, Board, SIGN-display. [These are not classifiers. They are signs that have evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If y'all unfreeze them and alter their movements they may get classifiers once more.] CL-3 * Motorized vehicles: car, tractor, helicopter, bus, motorcycle * Vehicle related events: parking a car, driving erratically, parallel parking, types of car accidents * Vehicle locations: "A auto was hither." "There was a car in this location facing or moving in this management." * Groups of iii: 3 people crossing the road * Feet: duck feet, hiking, walking, position of feet as a person walks * Liquid spray over large surfaces: spray painting a motorcar or business firm * (upright) sails on a boat * Related lexicalized classifiers that take go standardized signs: car-Accident, GARAGE, SHIP-(old_sailing_ship), HIKE, PARKING-LOT, PARKED [These are not classifiers. They are signs that have evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If you unfreeze them and change their movements they may become classifiers once more.] * Modest objects gripped by the alphabetize, pollex and centre finger: estimator mouse, baseball, bowling ball * Big pecker: normally used to represent birds of prey, eagle, falcon (if placed in front of mouth) * Hands: (modification of CL-five-claw) especially for scaling or climbing big object, wall, boulder * Easily that are stashing: stocking shelves, investing in stocks * Containers held past index and thumb, requiring ejection of contents (using pollex): needle, vaccinations * Parallel lines: stripes, bars, debate, upright boundaries * People standing in line. The movement of lines of people. * Objects that flow or leak: haemorrhage, drool, running water, draining (ear, sink, pipes) * Objects that stream or extend: curtains, hair, streamers, rainbows * Grouping of 4: iv people continuing or walking together * Traffic: (besides "CL-5"), sure types of traffic movement, multi-lane freeways * bandwidth, streaming (video, sound) * Related lexicalized classifiers that accept become standardized signs: RAINBOW, CURTAINS, Clearing/admittance, PLAID / Scotland, Claret, "LINE-of-people," SCHEDULE. [These are non classifiers. They are signs that have evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If you unfreeze them and change their movements they may go classifiers over again.] Example of a sentence mixing a regular sign and a classifier: I went to stand up in line and then noticed that the line was extremely long! CL-v * Potent and straight: hairs or fur that stand up on end, Mohawk * Objects that are extremely porous: filters, screens * The movement of air, air current, breezes * Group of 5: 5 people standing or walking together * Large flat object: a serving platter, flat lid * Flowing porous objects (using a modified 5) CL-5 > CL-O or CL-O > CL- 5: headlights, flashing lights, sunlight, shower * Objects that have projectile movements: vomit, diarrhea, wink inundation, copious tears * Delineate height or movement of water: ocean, flood, rise water, waterfalls, rivers * Traffic: (using a modified 4 or v handshape) traffic jam, multi-lane freeways * Upright objects viewed while traveling very fast: commonly used to describe blurred scenery while driving very fast. * The motion of a fan (bravado air) * Batting of eyelashes (related to the sign FLIRT) * The position or movement of a foliage * Flame * Related lexicalized classifiers that have become standardized signs: LEAF, TRAFFIC, PORCUPINE [These are not classifiers. They are signs that have evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If you lot unfreeze them and change their movements they may become classifiers once more.] * Webcam usage * Related lexicalized classifiers that have go standardized signs: WEBCAM, MICROWAVE [These are non classifiers. They are signs that have evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If yous unfreeze them and change their movements they may become classifiers once more.] * Scads of (too many to count): stars in the sky, freckles, audiences or crowds * Big piles (used to show curved pinnacle of big piles) * Objects that are rough or jagged: rakes, an animal growling, an animal bitter * Objects that are withered or curled upwards: withered plants * Curly pilus, wavy hair * The process of freezing or the land of being frozen * Representing groups of people sitting together: carpools, a grouping of people packing into a car, people in a raft * clouds, smoke, airborne grit * Balls: holding a brawl, throwing a ball * Easily: (modification of CL-five-claw) particularly for scaling or climbing large object, wall, boulder * Gnarled: to freeze, wither up, knobby tires * Related lexicalized classifiers that have become standardized signs: SHOCKED-(brain-freeze), FREEZE, RAKE, SCADS, AUDIENCE, RICH, PLENTY, Bite [These are not classifiers. They are signs that take evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If you lot unfreeze them and change their movements they may get classifiers again.] * An object in a specified location: a house on a street, a statue or vase on a table, a lamp on a desk. * Positioning in relation to other people or objects: ahead, behind, fall behind, chase, catch upward, accompany, spaced autonomously, above, beneath, facing each other * An object or person that commutes: A person going to the bathroom repeatedly, a person going to piece of work repeatedly, a ski-lift, a ferry. * Related lexicalized classifiers that accept become standardized signs: COMMUTE, DROWN, WITH, "go steady" (couples romance, Fill-in, CHALLENGE, BASEMENT [These are not classifiers. They are signs that have evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If yous unfreeze them and change their movements they may go classifiers again.] * Smoothen, apartment surfaces: road or runway; wall, hallway, ceiling, floor, shelf * Flat mobile surfaces: surfboard, skateboard, snowboard, people mover (moving sidewalk) * Inanimate objects in specified locations: pictures on a wall, books on a tabular array, racecar on a road * Inanimate objects in specified positions: books lined upright on a shelf, papers facing downwards * Height and width: a person's top (see CL-B-bent), the width of a box, a stack of books * Delineating 3 dimensional objects: house, box * A not-motorized riding device: equus caballus, wheel * Combine with CL-1, CL-iii, or CL-ILY to show movement over surface * body of water-turtle (using both hands and wiggling thumbs) * Related lexicalized classifiers that have become standardized signs: equus caballus-RIDE, Paper [These are non classifiers. They are signs that have evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If y'all unfreeze them and change their movements they may go classifiers once again.] Curved objects: bowl, sink, basin or a excavation device * Related lexicalized classifiers that have become standardized signs: a-Bowl, DIG [These are not classifiers. They are signs that have evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If yous unfreeze them and change their movements they may become classifiers over again.] * Smooth, flat surfaces: a long stretch of desert or road * Describing a object with precipitous corners: the peak of an area, such as a shelf or refrigerator * A trailer (such equally might be pulled behind a truck) * Amounts: less of * Related lexicalized classifiers that have get standardized signs: ROOM/box, SHELF-(variation), EQUAL, LESS, too-MUCH [These are not classifiers. They are signs that have evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If you unfreeze them and alter their movements they may become classifiers again.] * Long cylindrical objects: pipage, cavern, tunnel, pole, pocket-size tree trunk, big branch * Short cylindrical objects: loving cup or drinking glass, canteen * Thick objects and/or the thickness or depth of an object: a book, pizza, blanket, stack of papers, biceps, snowfall autumn * Related lexicalized classifiers that have go standardized signs: CUP, BINOCULARS, [These are not classifiers. They are signs that accept evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If you unfreeze them and change their movements they may become classifiers again.] * Clusters of objects in specified location: a group of students in the back room, a bouquet of flowers * Sections: location of a room in a house, sections of a metropolis, an article or cavalcade in a newspaper * Big objects in a specified location: a business firm out in the middle of nowhere, a camper on the back of truck * Medium, round, squat objects: cookie, badge, small cap (yarmulke), a large dial, over-ear-headphones * Small spherical objects (with fingers closer together): clown nose, bulging eyes * Large spherical objects (two hands): ball * Teeth: baring teeth, full set of teeth * Related lexicalized classifiers that accept become standardized signs: CLOWN, RADIO [Those are not classifiers. They are signs that have evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If you unfreeze them and modify their movements they may become classifiers over again.] Example of a sentence mixing a regular sign and a classifier: The clown had a really large nose. * Pocket-sized circular flat objects: a disc, a slice of food, the moon in the sky * Height and/or width of small objects (like to CL- G): a small canteen of perfume, a brusque pencil, a long spiral or smash * Pincers, curved beaks * Used to show the holding of small objects between the thumb and index finger * Related lexicalized classifiers that have become standardized signs: PARROT [These are not classifiers. They are signs that have evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If you lot unfreeze them and change their movements they may go classifiers once more.] * Handling or location of a book * Indication of book: going flat, on sale, discount * shape of the mouth: smiles or frowns * derogatory portrayment of talking * Related lexicalized classifiers that have become standardized signs: Frown, Grinning * The use, motion, or placement of small, thin, circular objects: button, money, polka dots, pepperoni, pepper shaker, chain links, rings: ear, nose etc., a single drop of rain, a single snowflake. * Long, thin, cylindrical shaped objects: stick, dowel, pall rod, small whorl of newspaper, water hose, faucet * Eye gaze: a person looking up or down, eyes moving dorsum and forth, a person rolling his eyes * Person moving along: hiking, walking, wandering around * Small round holes or openings * manipulation or holding of very sparse things or small things: flossing, threading a needle, turning a page, pulling out a hair. * Related lexicalized classifiers that accept become standardized signs: COINS, BUTTONS [These are not classifiers. They are signs that have evolved from classifiers. They are frozen forms. If you unfreeze them and modify their movements they may become classifiers again.] DYE-(belongings on to something and dunking it in dye.) * Specifies small sizes, shapes, or amounts * The holding and manipulation or state of something relatively small: Ear phones, USB-thumb-drives-(version_1), middle-droppers, uppercase / lowercase (tin can showtime "expanded" and change to regular sized to show "lowercase") or tin start closed and modify to a wide-G or index-thumb-C to prove "uppercase") * Short or shallow depths: thin layer of ice, shallow water, a small stack of papers * Flat and thin (or shallow) with squared edges: picture frame, ruler, strip of paper, track-on-a-railroad * Thin shapes (in general): mustache, sideburns, collar * Small-scale Pinchers: beak of a small bird, tweezers * The movement of eyelids: blinking, waking upwardly, surprise, opening one heart, squinting * Diminishing into the distance / leaving: changes from a wide-Yard to a airtight-Grand to show concept of "gone" * Come into view suddenly: An object that was far away comes closer (thus appearing larger) by using a closed-G and expanding information technology into an index-pollex-C. * Thin apartment objects: knives, bacon, some types of noodles, proper noun tags or badges, labels, bandage strips * S preading butter, frosting, or similar substances * B oards: railroad ties, beams-(woods/construction) * A variation of CL- 5: legs together, standing on a sidewalk, Joke sign: "Standing Ovation," a person on a surfboard Can include versions of the "H" paw in which the thumb is slightly separated from the fingers and so closes onto them equally if showing a clamping or attaching motion. * Fastening small objects to something else (using a clasping movement): badges, clip-on earrings, hair barrettes, paper clips Looks like an "H" mitt but the thumb is sticking out to the side. * Very thin and long objects: cord, yard, wire, thread, cherry stem, thin-stringy noodles * Boundary lines, perimeters * Small or very small paint brushes * Animals with two horns: bull, ox, moo-cow * Pronged items: goal posts, pitch fork, forklift, and the offset of a gun (at the starting time of a race) * Objects with abrupt borders for roofs and loose or open up sides: tent, canopy, circus, castle, carport * Two long, skinny objects spaced apart from each other: "splits in bowling" * Type of aeroplane: with slight finger modifications, airplane can become a supersonic jet (CL- RY), a space transport (CL- XY) * Movement: landing, take off, skidding on a rail, crashing in midair CL-L * Sparse squared objects: placemat, driver'due south license, greeting card * Sparse squared objects in a specified location and or position: pictures on a wall, mirror, a window frame * Objects with a short butt: drill, welding device, gun (pistol), laser * Circular or oval shaped objects: (similar to CL-C-(modified) simply larger) dish, carpeting, platter * Sparse round surface: lake, round table, paint spill, round mirror, puddle of h2o * Spraying device (with index jerk): window cleaner, water gun * Thick medium sized, cylindrical objects: rod, tree branch, piping, large cable, firehouse, common salt shaker * Viewing devices: goggles, telescope, binoculars * The state of beingness flat * Having drank a bottle empty, having read a book * Small squat objects (with rounded end): very fast race auto * Objects that are round at the lesser and a slight opening at the top: tulips, airtight flower bud * Animals with long necks: giraffe, llama, goose, swan, dinosaur, cobra * Thick Claws: (slight modification of CL-O-flat>CL-5) lobster or pinchers * Shutting upwardly (not talking) Related Lexicalized classifiers: SHUT-Upward!, Flat, LOBSTER, flattened-Self-ESTEEM * Braided or twisted cloth: rope, cable, braids, curled strands (hair or ribbon) * Short, round, somewhat thick with narrowed tips: cigars * Solid, spherical objects: head (of a person or fauna); head bobbing, head retreating (into shell) * Ramming device: pistons of a car engine, fist (or anything solid that can be jammed in or packed in tight) Cranking handle: window crank, old fashion ice cream automobile * Long thin circular hand-held objects: spear, large stirring spoon, rake handle * People (or rather legs of people): laying downwards, standing up, legs together, kicking * 2 long matter things, parallel to one another: train tracks * Ii pronged device: fork, forklift * Groups of 2: 2 people walking together or standing * Scissoring object: scissors, claws of a crab or lobster * Seated (person or animal: crouching, squatting, hunched down, perched * Bending knees: climbing stairs or mountains, jumping, sitting, two-easily-galloping * Arrangement of chairs: chairs in a semi-circumvolve; circumvolve or semi circle; multiple rows * Thin pulling object: bow string, pulling wire (to point the bus to cease) * Sliding device: sled, roller skates * Raking device: parallel scratch marks or paint streaks * Sets of teeth: chattering teeth * Head of an animal with floppy ears: rabbit * Two pronged teeth: most commonly, snake, vampire, squirrel or chipmunk * Long objects with a connective ending: bones, joints * A person or animal that is crouched or hunched over (using a modified version of CL- 1): a person who skulks, slinks, shrinks or slouches. * A scratching or digging device: scratch or scar, a digging or chipping appliance (such a pick ax or mining tool) * Anything with a hook: gunkhole anchor, door latch, fishing hook, talons, tow, bat (beast), beaked olfactory organ, scorpion'due south tail, clothes hangers * Long curved sliding device: ice skates, skis * The motility of bent legs: running furiously, cross-legged, kicked-dorsum-(relax), a balderdash pawing at the ground earlier charging, (etc.) * The movement of a convertible car'due south peak * A plant ready to sprout * Pocket-sized bulbous objects: onion, garlic * A snake or frog tongue just earlier flicking outward from the mouth. * A slice of popcorn prior to popping * The beginning handshape used in spitting or spewing of modest amounts of liquid * Pocket-size objects normally held betwixt fingers: cardinal or winding device * The property and manipulation of something very small, very fine, or very thin such as a needle or a razor bract. * Wide or long objects: hippopotamus' oral cavity, long word, loftier heels (stilettos) * Objects with handles: beer mug, bullpen, and in some instances, suitcase, luggage, or briefcase * Long curved object: cow horn, smoking pipe, telephone * Spanning the width or breadth of an object: ruler * Certain types of precision knives: "directly-edge razor" usage ____________________________________________ Chatroom discussion: Dr. Vicars: What is a classifier? What do you lot recollect Fine art? Art: I think you defenseless me not doing today's homework. Dr. Vicars: Heh, sorry, for putting you on the spot. Heather: It's the course of the fingers or easily to indicate a type of sign. Such as... if you desire to sign a loving cup or a plate, y'all grade either a small circumvolve with the easily, or you grade a larger circle with the hands. Tigie: Like long narrow things and round flat things? Daniel: Signs that represent classes of objects such equally land or water vehicles equally a group. Dr. Vicars: Those are some great answers, I remember we are getting there. :) Now give me another example. Sandy: Like using the index finger to testify long skinny things? Dr. Vicars: Good, right. Let me explain it a chip more than for yous. If I desire to show a person (we will call him "Fred") walking and I have established him on my right I can take my right index finger and move it to the left to correspond "Fred" walking across the room (or wherever). The index finger is (in this instance) existence used as a classifier. I can also inflect the sign in various ways (speed, distance, movement path, not-manual markers, etc). If I add a non-manual marker such as a facial expression it influences the pregnant of my classifier. For example, If I do the CL-1-"walk across the room" sign with a smile It means Fred is happily walking across the room. If I do it quickly It means Fred is hustling etc. [Changing how you do a sign is what you would phone call "inflecting" the sign for meaning.] Sandy: What I didn't understand in looking at this was - isn't it overly wide? Is information technology actually understood? Dr. Vicars: Think of classifiers equally a type of pronoun. You have to place your pronoun earlier you tin can use information technology. Also you have to utilise it in context. I deceit just kickoff a conversation with you lot past signing, "HE WALK." I have to set up some sort of situation or context, then I spell F-R-E-D, and and then point to the right then course the INDEX-finger-classifier (or "Classifier 1" also shown as CL-1) and move it to the left. Tigie: How do you know that classifier "F" isn't part of a fingerspelled or initialized discussion instead of representing a pocket-sized round thing? Dr. Vicars: Great question. The reply is context. It is the same way y'all know the letter O and the number 0 (zero) are different. It depends where they bear witness upward and how they are used. Dr. Vicars: I don't wait yous all to be experts at classifiers, just want y'all to know they exist. An example on that "F" concept: If I sign "I Buy NEW SHIRT" then I touch an F on my breast and throw it off suddenly it could hateful: "and the push popped off." The "F" classifier caused the meaning of "button" because of the context (I was talking about "shirts" and placement on my breast). Tigie: Would everyone understand that a button popped off and not for instance a bottle cap? Dr. Vicars: Recall this concept: "Show, don't tell." It is much faster to create an imaginary person or object and so show what happens to information technology or him--than to describe every detail in the state of affairs. In the case of the bottle cap I would accept had to betoken a bottle of some kind before using an f classifier. The simply possible pregnant for the classifier in the shirt instance would be a button, because that was the context. People normally don't wear a row of bottle-caps down the front of their shirts. Sandy: And so, classifiers are used later on on in the "sentence," -- information technology makes more sense now. Heather: Why would you use the "F" sign to show a push button popped off? Wouldn't you lot use a "B?" Dr. Vicars: Because the shape of the fingerspelled alphabetic character "F" has a circular hole representing the shape of a button. A "B" would be used to correspond things that are flat. Remember ASL is not linking to English it is linking to a concept. Heather: Thanks, that makes perfect sense. Some of the more popular classifiers: CL-1 Things that are (relatively) long and skinny. A pencil, a stick, a person. Classifiers are signs that are used to represent general categories or "classes" of things. They can be used to describe the size and shape of an object (or person). They can be used to correspond the object itself, or the way the object moves or relates to other objects (or people). Another definition is: "A set of handshapes that represent classes of things that share similar characteristics." Below are some examples of "types" of classifiers. I don't look you to become a handle on these just because I listing them, just I thought you would savor seeing a sample the diversity of classifiers out there (there are many more than I'm indicating here). This list is from a written report guide I hand out to my students at the college during certain semesters when I teach from the Vista, Signing Naturally curriculum ( � Descriptive Classifiers (DCL), are likewise known equally size and shape specifiers, (SASSes). They describe a person or object. � Semantic Classifiers, represent categories of nouns. For instance, people or vehicles. � Locative Classifiers, show placement or spatial data about an object. Sometimes indicate movement. � Plural classifiers � Instrument Classifiers, you employ your hands (or an other office of your body) to manipulate an "object." � Body Classifiers/Mime � Bodypart classifiers Student: I don't go what it means in the outline where it says: SCL-1 (person) "walking fast" Dr. Vicars: Oh okay and then... let me analyze that. The SCL merely identifies the general category. In a message dated 4/2/2006 12:52:00 A.G. Pacific Daylight Fourth dimension, John L. writes:
Introduction:
At present don't go arguing about how "shaking your caput" can mean "no" or a body shift tin mean "or."
I'k non talking nigh not-manual behaviors here -- I'm talking about signs. Is nodding your head "yes" a sign? No. It is a non-manual marker.
Shapes (including outlines, perimeters, surfaces, configurations, gradients, etc.)
Sizes (amount, largeness, smallness, relative size, volume, etc.)
Usage (movement paths, speed, interactions, etc.)
CL-3
CL-four
CL-5
CL-A
CL-B- flat things[roof, flat, wall]
CL-C-[thick things, circular pole-like things]
CL-C-(modified)(index and thumb) pepperoni, cookies, campaign buttons
CL-F - small round things: buttons, quarters, tokens, eyeballs, instrumental classifier for belongings on to minor things, (also for showing move of pocket-sized flying insects)
CL-G- sparse things (or degree of thinness), besides "eyelids"
CL-L (bent)-[big, check, card, square. Related concept: EGO big-headed/egocentric/complacent]
CL-Fifty-[check, card, foursquare]
CL-R Rope-like, braided, rolled,and/or twisted things.
CL-V- legs, a person walking-(upside-downward V), two people walking, [stand up, walk-to, lay down, toss-and-turn, dive, jump, skate board, scooter, go up]
CL-V (aptitude fingers) = a pocket-size fauna, or a larger animal sitting.
CL-Y Very wide things. A fat person walking. A hippopotamus's mouth.
CL-1 
CL-three- (bent/claw/curved) 
CL-4 
CL-v-(bent) * Low-cal waves or rays, x-rays, microwaves
* The movement of an octopus or jellyfish
* Transitory handshape involved with spreading outward.
* Transitory handshape used in signs involving lights or power turning on or off
* Video recording, video conferencing
CL-five-(claw) 
CL-A -(open)
CL-B-(apartment)
"apartment hand" 
CL-B-( c urved)
"curved hand" 
CL-B -(bent)
"bent paw" 
CL-C 
CL-C-( hook)
"claw hand" 
CL-C -(index_&_thumb) 
Case of a sentence mixing a regular sign and a classifier: My friend was walking past my parrot and my parrot bit him on the shoulder!
CL-C -(flat)
CL-F 
CL-F-(open) Looks like an "F" handshape merely the index and thumb are separated.
* Good for small, round, flat things such every bit a cookie, or a gold money (such as a "piece of 8" coin).
CL-G 
CL-U 
CL-H 
* Placement of an electrode onto the skin
* A tongue (some variations of natural language movements)
CL-H-(open)
* Medium or pocket-size paint brushes, painting
* a tongue: "a dog licking a person'southward face"
CL-I 
CL-horns
"horns handshape" 
CL-ILY or "ILY hand" 
CL-Fifty -(curved) 
CL-O 
CL-O -(flat) 
CL-R 
CL-S 
CL-V 
V -bent 
X 
CL-X -(cocked) 
CL-10 -(modified)
CL-Ten -(airtight)
CL-Y 
CL-A an object in a sure location. A house, a lamp.
CL-3- vehicles, [motorcycle, park a car, row of cars, accident, garage]
CL-four-[CURTAIN]
CL-5-[scads of]
CL-B- apartment things[roof, apartment, wall]
CL-C-[thick things, circular pole-like things]
CL-C-(index and thumb) pepperoni, cookies, campaign buttons
CL-F
CL-G- thin things (or degree of thinness)
CL-L(bent)-[large, arrogant/egoistic/complacent, check, card, square]
CL-L-[cheque, card, square]
CL-V- legs, a person walking-(upside-downwardly Five), two people walking, [stand, walk-to, lay downwardly, toss-and-turn, dive, jump, skate lath, scooter, get up]
CL-V (aptitude fingers) = a modest animal, or a larger beast sitting.
CL-Y Very wide things. A fat person walking (WADDLE). A hippopotamus'southward rima oris.
DCL-B (or bent B) "extremely tall" [Caption: to represent the descriptive classifier "extremely tall" you concur the "bent 'B' paw" high in the air while using an appropriate facial expression."]
DCL-aptitude-B "short"
DCL-4 "long hair"
DCL-1 "bulletin board"
DCL-1 "blackness lath"
DCL-4 (claw) "freckles"
DCL-4 "striped"
DCL-Chiliad "thin"
DCL-4 (hook) "curly hair"
SCL-1 (person) "walking fast"
SCL-one (person) "person walks to...____"
SCL-3 (machine) "drives to____"
SCL-Y (fat person) "waddling"
SCL-flattened-O (fast-motorcar) "cruising"
SCL-bent-V (row of chairs)
LCL-C/LCL-B "place loving cup on napkin"
LCL-5 "leaf floating to the ground"
LCL-1 (sticks) "one here-1 here"
LCL-B "shelf" (over to the right)
LCL-ane "goal-posts"
(2h)LCL-L "adjust a film"
Indicating a specific number or a not-specific number.
PCL-2 "two people walking"
PCL-four "long line of people"
PCL-iv "people moving in line"
PCL- 5 "hordes of _____." Often chosen "scads of."
PCL-V "people seated in a circle"
ICL "driving"
ICL "hammer in a nail"
ICL "play checkers"
ICL "play chess"
ICL "light friction match"
ICL (broom) ICL "sweep"
ICL (water) ICL"pour in"
ICL (garbage) ICL "dump out"
ICL (wash-clothes) ICL "hang upward"
Yous utilise your body to "human activity out" or "role play." Sometimes this is like "mime." Other times y'all just prove the action (or interaction) that is going on. Often this involves "role shifting."
"yawn"
"acting tough"
"give hug to child"
"running hard/pumping arms"
"wave to crowd"
"listen for foreign dissonance"
A specific office of your body is doing an action.
(2h)BPCL-F "wait at"
BPCL "kicking back" (relax)
BPCL "cross legs"
BPCL ""tap foot"
BPCL (head) "head tilted back"
BPCL-apartment-C "large grin"
BPCL-LL "red face" embarrassed / blush
BPCL-BB "mouth frowning"
The ":" means what a normal colon means.
The "1" represents making a "one" handshape with y'all index finger.
The ( ) tells you what it is representing--yous have to pre-identify this in your sentence or conversation.
The manner or how it was done is in the "quotes"
So if I wanted to evidence "Bob" walking fast, I would fingerspell his name, then agree up that finger and movement information technology chop-chop across my signing space. That would exist a classifier indicating how he is moving.
I have a question for you, can yous give me a definition for "Classifier Predicates"?
John, Classifier: 1 or index finger CL-1 Element classifiers: Describe things that do not have specific shapes or sizes, and are unremarkably in constant motion. ECL-4 "a running faucet" ECL-5wg "a candle flame" ECL-1 (zig zag) "a flash of lightning" ECL-flat O----->spread C "twinkling lights" References:
Classifier Predicates:
A classifier (in ASL) is a sign that represents a general category of things, shapes, or sizes.
A predicate is the part of a sentence that modifies (says something about or describes) the topic of the sentence or some other substantive or noun phrase in the sentence.
Example: JOHN HANDSOME
The topic is "John" the predicate is an "adjective predicate" describing John's advent.
Example: JOHN RUN
The topic is "John" the predicate is a "verb predicate" stating what John did or is doing.
Example: JOHN BED
The topic is "John" the predicate is a "noun predicate" stating John's location.
Example: JOHN CL-FF "eyes quickly looked at correct"
The topic is "John" the predicate is a "classifier predicate" indicating that John quickly looked to his right.
Whenever you employ a classifier to describe the shape, size, move, or location of a substantive, you are using a "classifier predicate."
Bill
Classifier: 3 CL-iii
Classifier: 5
Classifier: A
Classifier: B and Classifier; BB
Classifier: F
Classifier: H,R, and 4
Classifier: Inverted V and bent inverted V
Classifier: Quantifiers
Classifiers: Size, Location, Movement
Submitted past a reader:
Dr. Bill"s class notes:
3 little pigs story
CL- C>5 "cup spill"
CL- iii "car weaving on the road" CL- 5 "leaf drifting to the ground" CL- Ten>i"projectile soaring through air" CL- 55 "current of air blowing in one direction" CL- S "deliver vertical detail to" CL- CLAW>S "catch a small item" CL- cocked-X>ane "single droplet" CL- bent-V "person sitting facing me" CL- O>5: "spill or spread" CL- C "cup hand to or move to" CL- S>v-(wiggle) "waterfall" CL- V/B "jump off edge" CL- 4/1 "water running out of a faucet" CL- Hook-(jerk) "smoke rising" CL- S>loose-5 "water spewed out of mouth" CL- bent-V "people sitting in a semi-circle"
The thing to realize is that if y'all are Deaf, and/or if yous utilize ASL regularly with native Adult signers -- at some betoken you will commencement coming upwards with YOUR
OWN opinions regarding various classifiers and your opinion will help inform and further develop the topic. And you might actually come up with new "classifications of classifiers." Or you might come up with "sub-categories" of classifiers. For case, my wife, Belinda Vicars, came up with the phrase: "Trajectory Classifiers" (such as "projectiles") which show the move path, distance, and speed of objects. Such classifiers are perhaps best considered a subset of "locatives." Is "Trajectory Classifiers" an original term? I "recollect then" but then again at that place are thousands of people out there thinking about, developing, and writing about the construction and usage of signs. That simply bolsters my point: If you are active in the Deaf community and/or if you use ASL regularly with native Adult signers I encourage y'all to note your observations, recollect nearly them, and share those observations in an organized manner with others.
- Dr. Bill
Classifiers Introduction
Classifiers Handshapes
Classifiers part 1
Classifiers function ii
Classifiers part iii
Classifiers part four
Classifiers part 5
ABC Story: The Haunted House
Note to Classifiers Students: cave loving cup or glass (lexicalized classifier) pillar pipeline CL:C-claw Medium, round, squat objects: over-ear-headphones or muffs Small spherical objects: SUN-(specific_location)
I'yard building these links and pages as fourth dimension goes on. If you demand to see something specific, let me know. - Dr. Bill
ARTICLE-(An commodity or column in a paper) (This sign is not a classifier, simply if y'all modify the sign it tin be used as a classifier to depict various meanings.)
biceps
BINOCULARS (lexicalized classifier)
bo staff
canteen
Brain-"big-brained" / "double_brained" / very knowledgeable / 2nd Brain
branch-(off of a tree)
camper (a camper on the back of truck)
CLUSTER (group, plural or equally a whole, Homo-cluster = "men" WOMAN-cluster = women Instructor-cluster = teachers)
located-at: a house in the eye of nowhere
Long vehicles: limousine
pizza: deep-dish
pole or very small tree torso
THICK (thick objects and/or the thickness or depth of an object) [1] [2]
thick blanket
thick-Book: a thick book (See THICK and roll down)
tunnel
snow layer
stack of papers
trolley movement
THERE-(location or placement of a room, house, structure, or large object") (large objects in a specified location), sections and locations: sections of a urban center
COOKIE (The sign "COOKIE" is non a classifier, but if y'all modify the sign it can be used as a classifier to draw diverse meanings.)
badge
small cap (yarmulke)
a big punch
Y'all asked: "...and then claw C over the ears. Ear muffs or headphones?"
Answer: It could exist either depending on the context. Classifiers part to some extent as "pronouns" and must typically start be identified.
For example "MY SON BOUGHT NEW I-P-A-D. NOW HE WANT CL-C: "headphones." (Or, more than likely CL-G: "earbuds").
bulbous (clown) olfactory organ
bulging eyes
bump on head
Large spherical objects
(2 hands) ball
Teeth: baring teeth
full set of teeth
lexicalized classifier examples
Now simply regular signs:
CLOWN
RADIO
Case of a sentence
mixing a regular sign
and a classifier:
The clown had a really big nose.
CL:C-(index_&_thumb)
Pocket-sized circular flat objects:
a disc
a piece of food
taking a bite of a cookie
the moon in the sky
Superlative and/or width of small objects
a small bottle of perfume
a short pencil
a long screw or nail
Pincers, curved beaks
Instance of a sentence mixing a regular sign and a classifier: My friend was walking by my parrot � and my parrot bit him on the shoulder!
Long cylindrical objects: Curt cylindrical objects:
EYES-wide
Question:
Suppose I have the sign PUT with the flat-O manus.
I use a flat mitt to setup a shelf in space and then sign Brawl and sign PUT-on-shelf (using a apartment-O hand).
Is the flat-O a classifier in this instance?
Reply:
In regard to a apartment-O-paw being used with carve up signs for SHELF and Brawl -- to sign "put a ball on the shelf" -- the flat-O PUT sign in this situation is not a classifier bur rather it is simply a locative verb. In this situation the flat-O doesn't qualify equally a classifier considering the flat-O handshape gives no information about what was existence placed on the shelf. The only reason we know it was a ball is because you lot had to do more work past doing a separate sign for BALL.
Notwithstanding the base hand functions as a classifier when formed into a FLAT-mitt and used to depict shelf space upon which a Ball is existence placed.
The FLAT manus is depicting an object in a usually recognized class ("apartment things that are relatively sparse").
The generic sign SHELF is not a classifier (or you lot could think of it as a "temporarily frozen classifier" that is currently not existence used to depict any specific shelf).
The moment when you start using the sign for SHELF to depict a shelf in such a manner as that your depiction adds significant beyond the tern "SHELF" -- you have thawed the "frozen classifier" and have begun using it as a performance classifier.
You might think that by placing a ball on a shelf or putting a ball on a shelf doesn't add meaning but you would exist wrong. The mere act of holding your apartment hand up and doing the sign PUT or doing the classifier BALL-put-on adds meaning such as: Yous put it on the shelf not under the shelf. Y'all did not put on the very edge of the shelf. Y'all did not bounce the ball off the edge of the shelf. You lot did not attach the ball to the underside of the shelf.
Realistically nosotros are dealing with ii concepts here:
A broader concept of "depiction"
A somewhat narrower concept of "classifier"
Depiction is literally the showing of something -- that is a very broad concept.
A "classifier" notwithstanding is a label that typically means ane of ii things (in visual languages)
1. "a classifier handshape" -- a simple morpheme that when placed into context is associated in the minds of ASL signers as representing (or "significant") a form of things, elements, shapes, sizes.
2. "a classifer predicate" the combining of a meaningful "classifier handshape" with location, orientation, and various types of movement-related changes (altitude, speed, pauses, path, force, etc.) to add fifty-fifty more pregnant. The give-and-take "predicate" is but a fancy word that means "a part of a judgement that has a verb and states something nigh the field of study." The fascinating (likewise as powerful) thing virtually classifier predicates is that the classifier handshape can (and ofttimes does) function as a substantive, a verb, an adjective, and an adverb all simultaneously!
It is unfortunate that people in the field of ASL studies tend to use the term "classifier" without specifying whether they are referring to a "handshape" or to a "predicate." Information technology is also unfortunate that many people think that all ASL handshapes are "classifier handshapes." Y'all tin't take a classifier handshape until you accept context. Yous don't know "what" a handshape means until you lot have context or have been informed what information technology means.
Example one: Not a classifier: The "flat hands" in the sentence, "Nice to run into you."
Instance 2: Aye a classifier: The flat base hand in, "Put the ball on that specific shelf at that specific location.
Instance three: Not a classifier: The flat hands in: "I need to buy new shelves."
Example iv: Yeah a classifier: "The shelves brutal and cracked like this."
Consider the difference betwixt the English language terms:
1. shelves
2. There was a shelf �
iii. The shelf �
It is a significant difference. In the 2nd example you lot are introducing a specific shelf. In the 3rd example you are referring to a previously identified specific shelf.
In ASL we have:
1. shelves (out of context this sign is not a classifier, the sign means "shelves" but has no other added meaning regarding location, position beyond the default horizontal, nor movement.)
2. There was a shelf � (Example: YESTERDAY I Detect SHELF-depiction-of-shelf�) (This could go either way -- it could be a classifier or not depending on if the position, orientation, etc. adds any meaning beyond the basic pregnant of "shelf.)
3. The shelf �(Example: using a small downwardly movement to bespeak "the shelf was here." delineation-of-shelf using that modest downward movement means your are using a classifier predicate which consists of the classifier handshape and the "small downwardly movement" to create two meanings:
A. shelf
B. was here in this location / position)
At present back to the original example of placing a ball on a shelf.
Suppose we add a piece of paper to the mix?
shift-left Paper, shift-right BALL, shift-center depict-SHELF-here, describe-PUT-[apartment-O-hand-moving-from-left-to-center]
That sequence informs u.s.a. that information technology was the paper that got placed onto the shelf and because paper is by and large flat and thin we could claim that the PUT sign in this example was an instrument classifier. If nevertheless we signed:
"shift-left Newspaper, shift-correct Brawl, shift-centre depict-SHELF-here, depict-PUT-[flat-O-hand-moving-from-right-to-center]"
� we would categorize the sign PUT (when moving from the right to the center) every bit simply beingness a locative verb because "balls" are not thin and apartment like paper.
Types Of Classifiers In Asl,
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