Waubonsee Community College

A basic course in American Sign Language, Tom Humphries, Carol Padden, Terrence J. O'Rourke ; illustrated by Frank A. Paul

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-250) and index

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index present

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A basic course in American Sign Language

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Tom Humphries, Carol Padden, Terrence J. O'Rourke ; illustrated by Frank A. Paul

Presented in textbook form, the book contains 22 lessons, each one providing illustrations and two to four basis explanations of the language structures to be learned

Lesson 1. Personal pronouns -- Basic sentence structure : sentences with predicate adjectives -- Lesson 2. Possessives -- Basic sentence structure : sentences with identifying nouns -- Using two third person pronouns -- Note : use of AGENT suffix -- Lesson 3. Basic sentence structure : sentences with verbs -- Basic sentence structure : pronouns and nouns -- Basic sentence structure : adjectives and nouns -- Descriptive adjectives -- Lesson 4. Negatives -- Yes/no questions -- Responses to yes/no questions -- Negative questions -- Dialogue 1. -- Lesson 5. Basic sentence structure : present and past tense -- Basic sentence structure : using FINISH -- Basic sentence structure : future tense -- Note : establishing the tense context -- Lesson 6. Basic sentence structure : object + subject + verb -- Directional and non-directional verbs -- Directional verbs incorporating HE/SHE/IT -- Directional verbs with classifiers -- Lesson 7. Imperatives -- Using numbers -- Personal pronouns incorporating number -- Plurals --- Dialogue 2. -- Lesson 8. WH-questions -- Other forms of WH-questions -- The SELF pronoun -- Lesson 9. Noun-verb pairs -- Using subject as topic -- Lesson 10. Basic sentence structure : using modals -- Using negative modals -- Using modals as responses to yes/no questions -- Dialogue 3. -- Lesson 11. Adverbials of place : HERE and THERE -- Note : use of THIS/THAT -- Verbs incorporating location -- FINISH as conjunctionLesson 12. Existential HAVE -- Pronominal classifiers -- Locational relationships -- Note : adding movement to pronominal classifiers -- Lesson 13. Mass quantifiers -- More on quantifiers -- More on plurals -- More on using numbers -- Dialogue 4. -- Lesson 14. More negatives -- Negative quantifiers -- Use of NOTHING -- Lesson 15. More directional verbs -- Directional verbs incorporating two objects -- Directional verbs incorporating EACH or ALL -- Lesson 16. Time measurements incorporating number -- Tense indicators incorporating number -- Time reduplication -- Note : more on time repetition -- Dialogue 5. Lesson 17. Using a clause as topic -- Comparative sentences -- Conjunctions -- Lesson 18. Verb inflection : -Repeatedly -- Verb inflection : -CONTINUALLY -- Lesson 19. Adjective modulation : VERY- -- Adjective modulation : -REPEATEDLY -- Adjective modulation : -CONTINUALLY -- Dialogue 6. -- Lesson 20. Conditional sentences -- Rhetorical questions -- Lesson 21. Pluralizing classifiers -- Classifier 1 : incorporating number -- Note : other uses of classifier 1 -- More quantifiers -- Lesson 22. Outlining for shape and detail -- Shaping objects with classifiers -- Classifiers showing motion -- Dialogue 7. -- Manual alphabet -- Numbers