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[TABLE] [FLOWER] [KEEP + CL] I keep a bouquet on the table. [ROOM ix] [CHAIR] be (have) ... on the table -under the table -across the fence. Conclusion ...
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2nd SIGN LANGAUGE WORKSHOPOctober 30, 2009 at Equal Opportunity Cell, University of Delhi By Hidam Gaurashyam Singh
Adpostions Adpositions are not seen signing overtly in some sentences of IPSL.
[TABLE] [FLOWER] [KEEP + CL] I keep a bouquet on the table. • [ROOM ix] [CHAIR] be (have) The chair is in the room. I see flowers in the pot. I put flowers in the pot
A TABLE + A Flower
A Flower on The Table A flower under the table
Poetry “An early morning, frozen blood A crowd and stinking corpses A noisy evening, dark fumes Screaming voices and charred bodies”
Classifiers These are words or morphemes to mark a class/ group of nouns with similar shapes. For example, Computer, glass, book, bottle
in, on, under, across -in the pot -on the table -under the table -across the fence
Conclusion Adpositions are not signed separately because they are incorporated to the verbs or the relation between the content words can also be shown by localizing in the signing space. The adpositions (by default) have certain features of the shapes of nouns which is similar to classifiers of NI.