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  2. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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    ASL sentences may have up to two marked topics. [45] Possible combinations of topic types are two tm2 topics, two tm3 topics, tm2 preceding tm1, tm3 preceding tm1, and tm2 preceding tm3. Sentences with these topic combinations in the opposite orders or with two tm1 topics are considered ungrammatical by native signers.

  3. Object–subject–verb word order - Wikipedia

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    In linguistic typology, the object–subject–verb (OSV) or object–agent–verb (OAV) word order is a structure where the object of a sentence precedes both the subject and the verb. Although this word order is rarely found as the default in most languages, it does occur as the unmarked or neutral order in a few Amazonian languages ...

  4. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    Madsen, Willard J. (1982), Intermediate Conversational Sign Language. Gallaudet University Press. ISBN 978-0-913580-79-0. O'Reilly, S. (2005). Indigenous Sign Language and Culture; the interpreting and access needs of Deaf people who are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in Far North Queensland. Sponsored by ASLIA, the Australian Sign ...

  5. Grammatical aspect - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language (ASL) is similar to many other sign languages in that it has no grammatical tense but many verbal aspects produced by modifying the base verb sign. An example is illustrated with the verb TELL. The basic form of this sign is produced with the initial posture of the index finger on the chin, followed by a movement of the ...

  6. Classifier constructions in sign languages - Wikipedia

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    Frishberg was the first [49] [50] to use the term "classifier" in her 1975 paper on arbitrariness and iconicity in ASL to refer to the handshape unit used in classifier constructions. [51] The start of the study of sign language classifier coincided with a renewed interest in spoken language classifiers. [52]

  7. Subject–object–verb word order - Wikipedia

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    The basic principle in Japanese word order is that modifiers come before what they modify. For example, in the sentence "こんな夢を見た。" (Konna yume o mita), [7] the direct object "こんな 夢" (this sort of dream) modifies the verb "見た" (saw, or in this case had). Beyond this, the order of the elements in a sentence is ...

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    The recaps 💃 ‘Dancing With the Stars’ DWTS hit a major milestone this week with its 500th episode, and as if on cue, the judges gave singer-actress Chandler Kinney the season’s first ...

  9. Subject–verb–object word order - Wikipedia

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    instead of the regular [SOV] sentence "John Mary'yi terk etti" (Lit. John/Mary/left). German, Dutch, and Kashmiri display the order subject-verb-object in some, especially main clauses, but really are verb-second languages, not SVO languages in the sense of a word order type. [7] They have SOV in subordinate clauses, as given in Example 1 below.