ADVERBIAL MORPHEMES IN TACTILE AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
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Title
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ADVERBIAL MORPHEMES IN TACTILE AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
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Description
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Discusses an aspect of linguistic use of adverbial morphemes as applied to a single
case study of Tactile American Sign Language (TASL) as used by some American
Deaf-Blind signers. TASL, a variation of the visual language recognized as American
Sign Language (ASL), is not visually based. In ASL adverbial morphemes occur on
the face and are non-manual signals that the Deaf-Blind signer does not see. This
requires the ASL signer to make a slight modification, from these “invisible” non-
manual morphemes to a tactile morpheme. Accrued data concentrates on six
fundamental features of adverbial morphemes intrinsic to TASL: manner/degree,
time, duration, purpose, frequency, and place/position/direction.
A doctoral dissertation submitted to the Graduate College of Union Institute and
University, May 2004.
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Identifier
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dbi_interpreters/42
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Date
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1/1/2004
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Type
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Text
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dissertation
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Language
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eng
