List of notational conventions

EXAMPLE OF CONVENTION	FUNCTION/MEANING
s-i-g-n	fingerspelling
sign++	reduplication
₁sign_{3 2}sign_{1 3a}sign_3b	verb agreement
ix₁	1st person singular, ‘I’
ix₁_pl	1st person plural, ‘we’
ix₁₊₂_pl	‘two of us’
ix₁₊₂_p_l-incl	‘two of us’ (inclusive)
ix₁₊₂_pl-excl	‘two of us’ (exclusive)
ıx_a	pointing sign referring to a location
ıx(loc)_a	pointing sign referring to a location
ıx_a(_here)	‘here’
ıx(def)_a	definite determiner
ıx(dem)_a	demonstrative determiner
ıx_a[distal], ıx_a[proximal]	index sign, pointing towards a distal or proximal location in signing space
ix₃_pl-arc	3rd person plural with arc movement
ıx(B)₁,ıx(,)₁	first person singular pointing sign with the depicted handshape
ıx_{a[ipsi_down]}	index sign pointing to the lower ipsilateral area
ıx(poss)₁	index sign, 1st person possessive
poss₁	not an index sign, 1st person possessive
show_off, there_is_not, doesn’t_have	one sign translated into English with more than one word
aux_1, aux_2, not_1, not_2	a functional sign with more than one alternative form
q_prt	question particle
who^some	a sign consisting of more than one morpheme
car-pl	plural marker suffixed to a noun
eat^place	a compound consisting of two roots
phone(h1)^type(h2) ‘minicom’	a simultaneous compound. h1 represents the dominant hand and h2 represents the non-dominant hand
P∫head ‘psychology’	a compound. The dominant hand represents a letter and touches a part of the body such as the head
exist.not, have.not	a suppletive form with two morphemes
go.impfv	a sign internally modified to express a grammatical function
cl(6 ): ‘head_bowing’	classifier with this handshape with this meaning
cl(fist): ‘head_bowing’	classifier with this handshape with this meaning
cl(s) : ‘head_bowing’	classifier with this handshape with this meaning
[…]	mouthing, the representation of the actual phonetic production
/…/	mouthing, the phonological representation of the mouthed word
[pa]	mouth gesture
‘pa’	mouth gesture
rs:3a	role-shift into the role of the person represented as 3a