Continuity

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Continuity

• American Sign Language III

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What is continuity

• Continuity is a way of including an element of
  time within a sign.

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Kinds of Continuity

• Durative Time Signs
• Continuous Inflection
• Beginning-end pairs

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Durative Time Signs

• How would you sign the following?

• ALL-MORNING
• ALL-AFTERNOON
• ALL-NIGHT
• ALL-DAY
• EVERY-MONDAY
• EVERY-FRIDAY

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Continuous Inflection

• How would you sign the following?

• WORK-FOREVER
• GO-TO-AGAIN-REGULARYLY
• MONTHLY
• WEEKLY
• SAME-OLD-THING

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Beginning-end Pairs

• How would you sign the following?
• You would use these both in telling a story as if
  one is left out, the listener may feel something
  is missing.

• MEET-THEN-DISPERSED
• GROUP-WENT-THEN-CAME-BACK
• FLY-ROUND-TRIP
• BOARD-DISEMBARK
• FROM-ONE-PLACE-TO-ANOTHER

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Can you see the continuity?

• We will watch a short video to identify a signer
  using continuity within a story.