Example sentences

illustrating the constructions discussed in

 

Morphological Inflections and Syntactic Representations of Person and Number in ASL

MacLaughlin, Neidle, Bahan, and Lee

Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes 29

From this page, you may download digitized QuickTime movies exemplifying the grammatical ASL utterances cited in the article. In some cases, the construction in the glossed example is exemplified on video with a sentence that differs slightly (e.g., in terms of the specific lexical items used). This is indicated by the label "variant" underneath the video icon.

The table below lists the examples (in gloss form) for which movies are available. Click on the movie icon(s) next to the example to download the movie(s) (multiple icons indicate that multiple sample movies are available; in some cases, the example is signed by more than one native signer).

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