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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Feb 25, 1999 4:19 pm Subject: Re: Writing Grammar | |
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>Rats! there was this really informative message from Spain, that I wanted >to print, and I hit the wrong button and deleted it. Could someone please >resend it to me? (^_^) > >And while I'm here, how do you guys write relative clauses? > >Joe Martin >Plain old ordinary student >Top Left Corner, USA ____________________________ February 25, 1999 Good Morning Everyone! Yes...the message from the Parkhursts from Spain was terrific and I am looking forward to discussing it more too....I will be happy to send it to you, Joe. And yes...of course we write relative clauses in SignWriting. In regards to writing relative clauses...We have a series of "Writing ASL Grammar Lessons", written by Dr. Karen van Hoek and signed in ASL by Butch Zein. Only two of those lessons are posted on the web at the moment, although I am planning to post them all someday. As you know, doing web postings is much more work than writing a chapter in a book, so that is why web postings do not happen as quickly. Once they are posted, however, they are wonderful because they can be accessed by people all over the world - an amazing technological development. So...anyway...one of those "Writing ASL Grammar Lessons" is specifically on relative clauses and how we write them in SignWriting. I had planned to post how we write questions in ASL, as our next grammar lesson online, but if you would prefer ....I could post the relative clauses lesson first...would you prefer that? Some of the ASL Grammar Lessons we have are... Writing Topic Markers (already posted) Writing Spatial Comparisons (already posted) Writing Sentences That Ask Questions (next in line to be posted) Writing Relative Clauses Writing Conditionals Writing Adverbs Writing Adjectives Writing Classifiers and a new chapter.... Writing Verb Conjugations... will be written by me, since I have experience writing American and Danish Sign Language verbs in SignWriting. Some of the verbs have at least 40 different "changes" or "conjugations" or "modulations" to them. I know different terminology is used around the world for these verb"conjugations" - in SignWriting there is no terminology - we just write them! You can find one verb "to help" in our ASL Dictionary, in the SignWriter Computer Program, with around 32 conjugations...anyone can access this if you have our shareware...just open the dictionary and type the word "help" and you will find at least 30 variations of the one verb. Unfortunately I must get back to printing books. I only have one computer right now. This evening I am hoping I will have the second computer, fixed and working, back in my office. If so, then I can be on the internet while I am printing on the other computer simultaneously, and then work goes faster. Thanks for your patience - Have a splendid day!! 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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