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 …

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).

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 …

Classifiers are special signs that can be used to show size, shape, location, orientation, direction, and movement path. The topic of classifiers is so complex and worthy of discussion that I've …

What I'm saying is that many signs started out as classifiers and then became "lexicalized" (standardized, fossilized, frozen into specific signs) and are no longer classifiers.

ASL also uses special signs known as ASL classifiers that are difficult to write in English. For example, there is a sign that uses a "3-handshape" which is commonly used to represent …

When you sign a classifier in a way that "says something about" the referent, you are using a "classifier predicate." Classifier predicates can include information about a referent's size, …

The R handshape conveys independent meaning ("twisted or rolled up") thus it is a classifier-handshape. The R handshape coming from the head is a "classifier predicate" -- since it is a …

ASL signs have variations for the same reason that English words have variations. For example, in English a dog is sometimes called doggy, hound, mongrel, mutt, pooch, stray, bowwow, …

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