3.2. Verbs
Verbs in DGS represent a productive open-class part of speech with new entities being created regularly. As has been shown in Section 3.1.1. “common nouns” [Lexicon 3.1.1. ], some verbs have a nominal counterpart with the same phonological form. However, in DGS we also distinguish the three commonly differentiated verb classes plain verbs, agreement verbs, and spatial verbs, which will be described in more detail in the following sections. In DGS, all verb types as well as nouns are often articulated along with the mouthing of (parts of) the German word translation equivalent [Lexicon 2.2.3.].