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2. Classifiers

3. Classifier 4

4. CL:4

5. Parallel lines:

6. stripes,

7. upright boundaries

8. prison bars

9. Types of fences.

10. People standing in line.

11. The movement of a line of people.

12. Objects that flow or leak:

13. bleeding

14. drool

15. running water

16. Draining: ear, sink, nose

17. Things that stream or extend:

18. curtain styles

19. hair descriptions

20. streamers

21. rainbows

22. Groups of four.

23. Four people standing.

24. Four people walking.

25. CL:4 / CL:5 Types of “traffic”

26. multiple lane freeways

27. Review

28. Show me:

29. 3 car garage

30. A ball’s path through air

31. parking in a carport

32. a snake slithering off

33. A car stuck in snow.

34. 3 people crossing the road

35. head-on car collision

36. A large road sign.

37. helicopter taking off

38. A rear end car collision

39. A small triangle.

40. (car) side swipe

41. Motorcycle jumping a row of cars

42. (car) broadside

43. A car in a specific place.

44. A car was coming toward me.

45. three on three

46. The three of you.

47. The three of them.

48. The three of us.

49. CL:3 Walking (version)

50. CL:3 hiking (version)

51. spray painting a house

52. “Old Sailing Ship”

53. bird catching prey

54. climbing large object, wall or cliff

55. stocking shelves

56. investing in stocks

57. Giving a shot (with a needle)

58. Is the sign WORM a classifier?

59. WORM is not classifier

60. Worm movement is a classifier

61. Is a computer mouse a classifier?

62. The sign: computer mouse isn’t a classifier

63. How a computer mouse moves is a classifier

64. WORM or MOUSE are examples of what?

65. Lexicalized Classifiers

66. Lexicalized classifiers used to be classifiers

67. … but are now just regular signs.

68. Give me an example of a lexicalized classifier.

69. CURTAINS

70. Is “CURTAINS” a classifier?

71. No, but it used to be. Now it is just a sign.

72. If I modify the sign to describe a type of …

73. … curtain then I’m using a classifier.

74. Sign: CURTAIN

75. Classifier: “Type of curtain.”

76. Is “rainbow” a classifier?

77. No, but it used to be. Now it is just a sign.

78. If I modify the sign to describe a type of …

79. …rainbow then I’m using a classifier

80. Sign: RAINBOW

81. Classifier: “Type of rainbow.”

82. Signs that have evolved from CL:4

83. IMMIGRATION/admittance

84. PLAID = Scotland

85. BLOOD

86. "LINE-of-people,"

87. SCHEDULE

88. Those signs are now frozen.

89. If you unfreeze them and change their movements

90. … they become classifiers again.

91. Example of a sentence mixing a regular sign and a classifier:

92. I went to stand in line and then noticed that the line was extremely long!

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