Dr. Bill Vicars

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Classifiers

Classifier 4

CL:4

Parallel lines:

stripes,

upright boundaries

prison bars

Types of fences.

People standing in line.

The movement of a line of people.

Objects that flow or leak:

bleeding

drool

running water

Draining: ear, sink,

nose

Things that stream or

extend:

curtainstyles

hair descriptions

streamers

rainbows

Groups of four.

Four people

standing.

Four people

walking.

CL:4 / CL:5 Types of “traffic”

multiple lane

freeways

Review

Show me:

3 car garage

A ball’s path

through air

parking in a carport

a snake slithering

off

A car stuck in snow.

3 people crossing the road

head-on car

collision

A large road sign.

helicopter taking off

A rear end car collision

A small triangle.

(car) side

swipe

Motorcyclejumping a

row of cars

(car) broadside

A car in a specific place.

A car was coming

toward me.

three on three

The three of you.

The three of them.

The three of us.

CL:3Walking

(version)

CL:3hiking

(version)

spray painting a

house

“Old Sailing Ship”

bird catching

prey

climbing large object, wall or cliff

stocking shelves

investing in stocks

Giving a shot (with a needle)

Is the sign WORM a classifier?

WORM is not

classifier

Wormmovement

is a classifier

Is a computer mouse aclassifier?

The sign: computer

mouse isn’t a classifier

How a computer

mouse moves is a

classifier

WORM or MOUSE are examples of

what?

Lexicalized Classifiers

Lexicalized classifiersused to be classifiers

… but are now just regular

signs.

Give me an example of alexicalized classifier.

CURTAINS

Is “CURTAINS” a classifier?

No, but it used to be.

Now it is just a sign.

If I modify the sign to describe a type of …

… curtain then I’m using a

classifier.

Sign: CURTAIN

Classifier:“Type of curtain.”

Is “rainbow” a classifier?

No, but it used to be.

Now it is just a sign.

If I modify the sign to describe a type of …

…rainbow then I’m using a

classifier

Sign: RAINBOW

Classifier:“Type of rainbow.”

Signs that have

evolved from CL:4

IMMIGRATION/

admittance

PLAID = Scotland

BLOOD

"LINE-of-people,"

SCHEDULE

Those signs are now frozen.

If you unfreeze them

and change their

movements

… they become

classifiers again.

Example of a sentence mixing

a regular sign and a classifier:

I went to stand in line and then

noticed that the line was

extremely long!

Dr. Bill Vicars

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