In sign languages, classifier constructions, also known as classifier predicates, are a morphological system expressing events and states. They use handshape...

Athabaskan. Classifier handshapes are also found in sign languages, although these have a somewhat different grammatical function. Classifiers are often...

The term classifier is not used by everyone working on these constructions. Across the field of sign language linguistics the same constructions are also...

apart from the sign languages of large deaf communities studied so far, including the absence of the type of classifier construction that expresses motion...

běn CLASSIFIER 书 shū books 三 本 书 sān běn shū three CLASSIFIER books "three books" When a noun stands alone without any determiner, no classifier is needed...

proposed that ASL is a creole in which LSF is the superstrate language and the native village sign languages are substrate languages.: 493  However, more recent...

causative constructions. In this respect RSL is typologically similar to other languages. Classifier predicates are highly iconic verbal signs in which the...

human-classifier of student" – three students For trees, it would be: san-bon no ki (三本の木) lit. "3 classifier-for-long-objects of tree" – three trees In linguistics...

inversion is used in many constructions, including focus, negation, and interrogative constructions. The verb do can be used as an auxiliary even in simple declarative...

demonstratives) is used without a classifier. However jǐ (几; 幾, "some, several, how many") takes a classifier. For adjectives in noun phrases, see the Adjectives...

in American Sign Language (PhD). University of California, San Diego. 8224531. Supalla, T. (1986). "The classifier system in American sign language"...

studied as a foreign language in colleges and schools.[2] SASL is distinct from American Sign Language (ASL) and other sign languages used in Arabic countries...

from sign language research. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Emmorey, K. (Ed.). (2003). Perspectives on classifier constructions in sign languages. Lawrence...

Khoisan. In addition, the languages of Africa include several unclassified languages and sign languages. The earliest Afroasiatic languages are associated...

classifier, except in round numbers (numbers that end in zero), in which the word order is flipped, where the quantified noun precedes the classifier:...

and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; both families together are sometimes known as Indic languages. Languages spoken by the remaining...

pattern noun-classifier-demonstrative. For example, the noun phrase "this dog" would be expressed in Thai as หมาตัวนี้ (literally 'dog (classifier) this')...

The Mayan languages form a language family spoken in Mesoamerica, both in the south of Mexico and northern Central America. Mayan languages are spoken...

Schubert, Designed Languages for Communicative Needs within and between Language Communities, in: Planned languages and language planning Archived 25...

described as non-classifier languages. On the other hand, there are languages that obligatorily require a counter word or the so-called classifier for all nouns...

often "three classifier people". A more general type of classifier (classifier handshapes) can be found in sign languages. Classifiers can be considered...

obviative in Algonquian languages). Athabaskan languages like Babine-Witstuwitʼen make use of two main argument transferring morphemes known as classifiers. However...

The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and the adjacent...

role in terms of sentence constructions in Nuosu. Nuosu does not have article words, but conjunctions and postposition words are used. Classifiers are...

distinct from the classifier cái that classifies inanimate nouns (although it is historically related to the classifier cái). Thus, classifier cái cannot modify...

(MW), a classifier, must be used between the numeral and the noun (most languages of the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area are similar in this respect)...

resulting in unique syntactic constructions and simultaneous sign formations. Its use is characterized by spatial grammar, classifier constructions, and gestures...

the Ryukyuan languages spoken in the Ryukyu Islands. As these closely related languages are commonly treated as dialects of the same language, Japanese is...

German is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. The Germanic languages are traditionally subdivided...

ergative in the patterning of actant incorporation in verbs. In sign languages that have been studied, classifier handshapes are incorporated into verbs, indicating...