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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Jan 24, 2002 8:09 pm Subject: ZURICH: hand held for a long time? | ||||||||
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>>>already have some convention to show that a sign is held by one >>>hand through the production of following signs? Just to notate it >>>with a normal handshape symbol seems somewhat odd, as it looks >>>like it's a part of the formation of the current sign, rather than >>>the continuation (holding) of a previous sign... SignWriting List January 24, 2002 Yes. We have a standard way to write "one hand being held for a long time". It is explained in the "Lessons in SignWriting Textbook" in Chapter 12, on Dynamics. The Tension Symbol, when placed near a lone hand symbol, means the "hand is being held in space". We use this for marking classifiers. Here are excerpts from Chapter 12: | ||||||||
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