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From:
Valerie Sutton Date: Sat May 8, 1999 11:35 pm Subject: Inflection | ||||||||
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May 8, 1999 Hello Everyone! Joe Martin meant this message to be posted to the SignWriting List, but he sent it to my private email address by mistake. So he asked me to post it for him. As you will see below, this is a message about linguistics, and is rather technical -I will follow up with another message with my response: Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 15:23:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe Martin To: SignWriting Subject: Inflection Here's a discussion of some basic ASL grammar that I stole from another list. The next obvious question is, how do you write these two in SignWriting? > >Could you help further? How does 'durative' differ semantically from >'continuative'? > >Thanks, > >Ronnie > >P.S. For those interested, formationally, the differences are shown in >pictures on p. 293 of Klima & Bellugi 'Signs of Lg'. > I had to look up the difference in the Klima/Bellugi text -- I thought they were the same thing (smile). I'm not quite as sure here, but my sense is that in keeping with the "kill" (although maybe to-kill can't quite conform to this aspect), TO-KILL (durative) means "to keep on killing FOR an extended period of time" while TO-KILL (continuative) means "to keep on killing OVER an extended period of time". That is, in the durative aspect, the killing occurs fairly continuously during a set period of time, without much interruption, while in the continuative aspect, the killing occurs during a set, but extended period of time, with the possibility of some intervals in which killing does not occur. Does this make any sense? Using the Klima/Bellugi examples of "LOOK-AT", the durative aspect means a fairly steady, uninterrupted and focused gaze, while the continuative aspect means a fairly constant gaze that could be interrupted and is not quite so focused or "interested" -- maybe almost disinterested would be a better word. Again, this is my best sense--I'm not claiming certainty on these two here. I would like to hear any confirmation that my sense is correct or not. Joe Martin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org The DAC, Deaf Action Committee for SW Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ||||||||
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