Re: visual languages
| From: | Nokta Kanto <red5_2@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 6:30 |
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 09:50:31 +0000, Peter Bleackley
<Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:
>I have heard that British Sign Language has a topic-comment grammar.
>Regions of space can be designated as pronouns. Here's an example, using
><angle brackets> to indicate a sign.
>
><region1> <cat>
><region2> <mat>
><region1> <sit> <region2>
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>"The cat sat on the mat".
>
>Pete
American Sign Language does this. They use left and right as pronouns. I
don't know if they can (grammatically) use more than two pronouns at once.