A Basic Course in American Sign Language Full Class: Week 11

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American Sign Language 2: Week Two

Review

• Fingerspelling
• Numbers 0-1,000,000
• Your name

Number Incorporation

• Age
  • My son is four years old.
  • Amy is eleven.
  • I am twenty.
  • Time
    • 9am
    • 2:34pm
    • 11pm
    • Midnight
    • Noon
  • Number of People
    • #-OF-US
    • #-OF-THEM
  • Money
    • Cents
    • Dollars
  • Lengths of Time
    • Seconds
    • Minutes
    • Hours
    • Months
    • Days

Lesson 13 Vocabulary

• A-LITTLE
• A-LOT, MUCH
• ALWAYS
• APPOINTMENT, RESERVE, RESERVATION
• RESERVE, RESERVATION
• BASEMENT, BELOW, BENEATH
• BORN, BIRTH, BIRTHDAY
• BORN
• BIRTHDAY
• BOYFRIEND
• CHEESE
• COST, VALUE, WORTH, PRICE
• COUNTRY
• DISCUSS, DEBATE
• EMBARRASS
• ENOUGH
• FREE
• SAFE
• FUN
• INTELLIGENT, SMART (2)

Lesson 13 Vocabulary

• LAW, LEGAL
• LIST, OUTLINE
• NATIONAL, NATION, NATURE, NATURAL
• OFTEN, FREQUENT
• OWE, DEBT, OBLIGATION, DUE
• PIE
• PLENTY
• PRICE, COST, CHARGE
• REASON, RATIONALE
• REALIZE
• RIGHT (“You have rights”)
• RULE, REGISTER
• SKI, SKIING
• SNOW
• SOME
• SOMETIMES, ONCE-IN-A-WHILE, OCCASIONALLY
• STRANGE, ODD, PECULIAR, WEIRD
• THROW-AWAY, DISCARD
• TROUBLE
• WITH, TOGETHER

Lesson 13

• Mass Quantifiers
  • The quantifiers SOME, A-LITTLE, and PLENTY are added either before a mass noun or at the end of the sentence.
  • SOME
    • I think there’s some food left.
      • I THINK HAVE LEFT FOOD SOME.
      • Grandma wants some of your pie.
        • YOUR PIE (topicalized) GRANDMA WANT A-LITTLE.
    • A-LITTLE
      • I’ll eat a little cheese.
        • I EAT CHEESE A-LITTLE.
        • I EAT A-LITTLE CHEESE.
        • He drank a little bit of my soda.
          • MY SODA (topcialized) HE DRINK A-LITTLE.
    • PLENTY
      • I have a lot of furniture.
        • HAVE FURNITURE PLENTY I.
        • I have a lot of work left (to do).
          • I PLENTY WORK LEFT.

Lesson 13

• More on Quantifiers
  • Some classifiers also serve as quantifiers. The classifiers on page 141 are used to indicate:
    • The amount of liquid
    • The thickness of a solid
    • The height of a stack

Lesson 13

• Classifiers
  • CL: G
    • Like showing an inch or a “G”
    • There’s still a little soda left. Do you want some?
      • STILL LEFT CL:G SODA. YOU WANT YOU (question).
      • My house has a lot of dust. It’s pretty dirty.
        • MY HOUSE WOW DIRTY. HAVE CL:G D-U-S-T.
        • You should drink some orange juice.
          • CL:G O-J YOU DRINK SHOULD YOU.

Lesson 13

• Classifiers
  • CL: L (with two dots over L)
    • Similar to the final handshape of 100
      • She bought a new rug. It’s very thick.
        • SHE BUY R-U-G NEW. WOW CL:L (with two dots).
        • I found a lot of water in the basement.
          • BASEMENT I FIND CL:L (with two dots) WATER.

Lesson 13

• Classifiers
  • CL: BB (arrows pointing up and down)
    • I have to read a big stack of books for class.
      • MUST I READ CL:BB (arrows) BOOKS FOR CLASS.
      • He gave me a stack of letters recently.
        • RECENTLY HE-GIVE-ME CL:L (with two dots) LETTER.

Lesson 13

• Plurals
  • Add a classifier which functions as a quantifier, such as CL:5 (w/ 2 dots), either before the noun or at the end of the sentence.
    • I saw a large number of cats.
      • I SEE CAT CL:55 (w/ 2 dots).
    • The store has a lot of bicycles
      • STORE IT HAVE MANY BICYCLE CL:55 (w/ 2 dots).
    • There are a whole bunch of people at the party.
      • THERE PARTY I SEE CHILDREN CL:55 (w/ 2 dots).

Lesson 13

• Plurals
  • Some nouns can be reduplicated, that is, the sign can be made again several times as it is moved to the side (represented by + +).
    • There are many trees near my home.
      • IT HOME HAVE TREE + +.
    • She brought many suitcases there.
      • SHE BRING-THERE SUITCASE ++.
    • The hotel has many doors.
      • H-O-T-E-L IT HAVE MANY DOOR +++.