Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
4 results found in sign language linguistics.
- Classifiers (Sign Language) (Classifier Predicates, CL (Sign Language))
- Productive handshape-based constructions in sign languages that represent a class of referents — a vehicle, a flat object, a person walking, a small round object — and show their location, movement, s…
- Mouth Morphemes (Mouth Gestures, Mouthing (ASL), Adverbial Mouth Morphemes)
- Non-manual mouth configurations in sign languages that carry grammatical or adverbial meaning independent of the words they accompany. In American Sign Language, mouth morphemes include patterns such …
- Role Shifting (Referential Shift, Constructed Action)
- A narrative device in American Sign Language (and many other sign languages) in which a signer takes on the persona, gaze, and body posture of a character in a story, dropping the default "narrator" f…
- Topicalization (Topic-Comment Structure)
- A grammatical construction common in American Sign Language and other sign languages in which the topic of a sentence is placed first and marked by non-manual signals — typically raised eyebrows, a he…