Re: Verb Classes

In a message dated 6/12/00 5:17:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes:

> > A solution I'm
>  > leaning towards is to put gestures in the "physical actions"  class and
>  > written actions into the spoken actions category:
>
>  How about leaving sign language in "spoken actions"? You could use the
>  same verb for "gesture" but with a different class affix.
>
Sorry about that; I plan on making the spoken actions class into a sort of
"language actions class", which would include, of course, written, spoken,
and gestural language.  by gesture I was merely referring to agrammatical
gestures, such as the middle finger and the "OK" sign.

Joe Mondello