EXAMPLE OF CONVENTION |
FUNCTION/MEANING |
s-i-g-n |
fingerspelling |
sign++ |
reduplication |
1sign3 2sign1 3asign3b |
verb agreement |
ix1 |
1st person singular, ‘I’ |
ix1pl |
1st person plural, ‘we’ |
ix1+2pl |
‘two of us’ |
ix1+2pl-incl |
‘two of us’ (inclusive) |
ix1+2pl-excl |
‘two of us’ (exclusive) |
ıxa |
pointing sign referring to an individual or a location |
ıx(loc)a |
pointing sign referring to a location |
ıxa(here) |
‘here’ |
ıx(def)a |
definite determiner |
ıx(dem)a |
demonstrative determiner |
ıxa[distal], ıxa[proximal] |
index sign, pointing towards a distal or proximal location in signing space |
ix3pl-arc |
3rd person plural with arc movement |
ıx(,)1 , ıx(2)1 |
first person singular pointing sign with the depicted handshape |
ıxa[ipsi_down] |
index sign pointing to the lower ipsilateral area |
ıxa[contra_up] |
index sign pointing to the upper contralateral area |
ıxa[right_down] |
index sign pointing to the lower rightwards area |
ıxa[left_up] |
index sign pointing to the upper leftwards area |
ıxa[vertical] |
index sign pointing to the vertical plane |
ıxa[horizontal] |
index sign pointing to the horizontal plane |
[sign sign sign][right] |
sequence of signs localized in the right side of space |
right-sp |
in case the brackets are being used for other markings |
[sign sign sign][left] |
sequence of signs localized in the left side of space |
left-sp |
in case the brackets are being used for other markings |
[sign]F |
focus |
[sign]T |
topic |
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 |
signbim |
sign articulated bimanually |
dh: sign sign sign |
sequence of signs articulated with the dominant hand |
ndh: sign sign sign |
sequence of signs articulated with the non-dominant hand |
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 |
phone(h1)^type(h2) ‘minicom’
|
a simultaneous compound. h1 represents the dominant hand and h2 represents the non-dominant hand |
Pʃhead ‘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 and the meaning indicated |
[…] |
mouthing or mouth gesture, the representation of the actual phonetic production |
/…/ |
mouthing, the orthographic representation of the mouthed word |
[pa] |
mouth gesture |
rs |
role-shift |
rs:3a |
role-shift into the role of the person represented as 3a |
rs: rabbit |
role-shift indicating the character the signer is representing |