Welcome to my website on the Linguistics of ASL. I am a first-year interpreting student at George Brown College in Toronto, and this is my website for my Syntax of ASL class.
American Sign Language (ASL) is a visual-spacial language, articulated with the hands, face, and upper body. The linguistic features of ASL are still very under-researched, and no doubt linguistic consensus concerning these topics will change as more research is done. The readings for this class have been an exciting exercise in "peering under the hood", and learning to see ASL's inner workings.
American Sign Language (ASL) is a visual-spacial language, articulated with the hands, face, and upper body. The linguistic features of ASL are still very under-researched, and no doubt linguistic consensus concerning these topics will change as more research is done. The readings for this class have been an exciting exercise in "peering under the hood", and learning to see ASL's inner workings.
Time
How ASL marks when something occurred.
Temporal Aspect
How ASL marks how long or how often something occurred.
Subject and Object
How ASL marks the performer and recipient of a verb.
Pluralization
How ASL marks how many of something.
Distributional Aspect
How ASL marks multiple subject or object locations of a verb.