Quote: morphological dimensions in mimetic ASL for movement, handshape, orientation, manner, basehand, and process morphemes; e.g., FLY vs. AIRPLANE

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By this time it should begin to be … [mimetic American Sign Language] verbs of motion and location. … [p. 475] The movement root, handshape, orientation, (optionally) manner, … motion or location. There are in addition several … verb, and to inflect either the noun or … [For example,] the verb FLY (airplane-classifier + linear movement) … a restrained fashion for the noun.   Google-1   Google-2

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