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"Angus B. Grieve-Smith" Date: Sun Jul 29, 2001 11:51 pm Subject: Re: re; squeeze and Hinge | ||||||||
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Valerie Sutton wrote: > Sometimes a Squeeze Motion can involve the knuckle joints too...(that > is the necessary result of the squeezing motion)....but it must not be > confused with Hinge Motion. Okay, so the Squeeze motion covers both a) motion of just the second and third joints b) motion of all three joints It's true that I can't think of any signs where the difference between (a) and (b) corresponds to a difference in meaning. If a language that has such a difference is ever found, we would just have to change our terminology. But it may well be a universal of sign languages. -- -Angus B. Grieve-Smith Linguistics Department University of New Mexico | ||||||||
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