Timeline for Is there a term for ASL signs for related concepts that share the same motion and are distinguished by initialization?
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| Feb 4, 2021 at 5:08 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @jlawler That was my immediate thought when reading the question too (I know absolutely nothing about signed languages). The handshape is comparable to the radical and the frame is then the (most commonly) phonetic component. Except their roles seem to be reversed: in Chinese, the radical that changes conveys the semantics and the component that stays the same hints at the phonetic value, while in ASL, it seems it’s the invariant frame that carries the logical semantic grouping and the variant handshape gives the ‘phonetics’ (≈ initial letter). | |
| Feb 3, 2021 at 18:01 | comment | added | jlawler | Another example in a different mode yet is the way Chinese characters can be arranged by quasi-semantic radicals, e.g. the Water Radical, | |
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| Mar 25, 2019 at 10:25 | history | edited | Omar and Lorraine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Tried to explain transfixes a bit better, with examples from Arabic
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| Feb 11, 2019 at 8:31 | history | edited | Omar and Lorraine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Removed example about -gate. I think it was irrelevant and confusing.
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| Feb 5, 2019 at 10:03 | history | answered | Omar and Lorraine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |