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ASL grammar: Citation form, truncation, & QM-wig (Vocabulary Expansion Series: VES 41)
By ASL University (Lifeprint.com)
William G. Vicars, Ed.D. with Cäsar Jacobson
Intended audience: Students who have who have completed Level 2 or higher of the ASL University curriculum.
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Content:
Vocabulary Expansion Series Lesson 41 truncate has many different signs
truncate means to shorten the duration or extent of
truncate abbreviate condense summary
truncate reduce linear length of (index fingers version)
truncate CLIP off beginning and end
truncate clip off end
truncate clip off beginning
truncate make smaller in general
truncate make the time frame shorter
truncate LESS (general sign)
IMPORTANT citation version of important (full version)
IMPORTANT truncated version (shortened version)
very-IMPORTANT! inflected truncated
ROLE
CONTEXT
LANGUAGE low context initialized version
LANGUAGE high context non-initialized version = a version of SENTENCE
SENTENCE version 1
SENTENCE version 2
CAPTIONS subtitles
STORY
abbreviate condense summary truncate
A video clip
A brief video
In general broad open to the public
in general most of the time MOST TIME
A general a boss a chief a coach
EXTREMELY OMG “I can’t even!”
The sign “give-SHOT-to” in high context can mean …
VACCINATE
YOU VACCINATED FINISH YOU?
Ingest EAT SWALLOW
ingest POP-in-MOUTH GO-down-throat
bloodshot eyes RED + claw hands rotate over eyes
bloodshot eyes EYES RED SPREAD-thru-eyes
COLON (part of intestines)
COLON (punctuation mark) :
worn out
wear out inflected version: deteriorate decay disintegrate
dissolve solve melt
dissolve inflected version: deteriorate decay disintegrate
shrivel has many versions
shrivel inflected version: decay like a large grapefruit drying up
gross NAUSEATED version
gross EWW-that’s-SICK version
gross F-hand version
gross VOMIT version
Review: Show me a few ways to sign gross
tongue
LICK something nonspecific
something or someone licked my face
Sign this: MY CAT LICKED-my-FACE
FROG
FROG flick-tongue
FLYING insect nonspecific
FLYING-insect FROG FLICK-TONGUE INGEST
FRENCH-KISS
The term “EX” in ASL can in context mean former, old, or previous.
SLIDES as in PowerPoint or similar presentation slides.
These slides are non-auto-biographical. SLIDES I USE? NOT ABOUT ME.
Any version of gross works for this next sentence …
MY EX THINK FRENCH-KISSING GROSS
SEIZURE
Epilepsy SEIZURE version
EPILEPSY swallow tongue version
FINGER-PRINT
GUZZLE-whole-container
road street way path & similar concepts
hallway
sidewalk
Compare: ROAD HALLWAY SIDEWALK
SEIZURE
Epilepsy SEIZURE version
EPILEPSY swallow tongue version
FINGER-PRINT
GUZZLE-whole-container
hallway
sidewalk
QUESTION MARK WIGGLE = qmw has various uses in ASL.
A common use of QMW is for showing incredulity or skepticism.
However, another, less common use of QMW is …
at the end of long or complex YES / NO questions that should end with eyebrows up
but end with a sign that uses a scrunched face …
Example: MY EYES BLOODSHOT QMW?
Example: MAD …
Is he mad? 1. HE MAD HE? 2. HE MAD QMW?
Newsflash Emotion signs don’t have to be marked with expressions.
Example: HE MAD-[unmarked version] HE?
Example: I’m not mad. = I NOT MAD.
Show me some versions of truncate
Show me some ways to sign decay or disintegration
Show me an inflected, truncated form of very-IMPORTANT!
Show me how a frog eats
Inform me that your cat licks your face.
Ask me if I’ve ever been finger-printed before.
Ask me if my ex thinks French kissing is gross. (Use QMW)
Ask me if I’m an Epileptic.
Ask me if your eyes are bloodshot.