A COGNITIVE/FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE ACQUISITION OF "CLASSIFIERS"

Abstract

One of the most notable aspects of the grammar of ASL is the productivity of multimorphemic classifier predicates.-Brenda Schick (1990, p. 358) Sign language makes use of dimensions of the spatial mode, which spoken languages lack, in creating visible shapes moving in space which reveal their mimetic origins yet are systematically and formationally constrained.-Edward Klima & Ursula Bellugi