linguistics Baker

what is syntax

Syntax is the coordination of words and phrases

As with many spoken languages the order of words/signs are critical to the understanding of the relationships between those words/signs

what is English’s word order

SVO

What is free word order? How does it work

Latin is a heavily inflected language with largely free word order. Nouns are inflected for number and case; pronouns and adjectives (including participles) are inflected for number, case, and gender; and verbs are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, voice, and mood.

what are non manual signs?

ASL syntax? What is its word order?

how can non-manuals change the meaning of a sentence in ASL

they can change a sentence to a question

how does topicalization work for ASL?

Why is SVO considered the basic order of ASL if OSV is more common?

Topicalization specifically where are time adverbials supposed to be topicalized to?

how are yes no questions asked in asl

how are why- questions asked in asl

how is negation expressed in asl?

how do assertions work in ASL

how do conditional clauses work in ASL. What are they?

how do rhetorical questions work in ASL?

give examples of mouthing and how they are used in asl

what are the three adverbial mouthings

what are the adverbial mouthing for SASS’s. what does a puff reference? What does pah mean? What does foo mean?