1.3. Compounds with fingerspelled components
These compounds consist of a combination of a sign and at least one fingerspelled component, or of a combination of fingerspelled elements only. On the one hand, this type of compounds can be considered loan compounds since they involve a manual representation of written Dutch. On the other hand, as will be shown below, some compounds with fingerspelled elements are structurally native-like, i.e. they do not have a counterpart in Dutch or do not employ the same structure as the Dutch counterpart. We follow the SignGram Blueprint in addressing compounds with fingerspelled elements separately.
In NGT, compounds with fingerspelling are usually sequential (MORPHOLOGY 1.3.1), but we also discuss two potential cases of simultaneous compounds (MORPHOLOGY 1.3.2). Note that initialized signs are not included in this section.