Dr. Bill
Vicars
Lifeprint.
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Classifier
s
Review
Show
me:
Person
walking
Two
pencils
side by
side
A board,
sign, or
poster
A square
with a
circle
inside.
A one
way
street.
An intersection
A ball’s
path
through
air
a snake
moving
across a
surface
A single
tear.
A
caterpillar
crawling
up a tree.
a worm
tunneling
upward
Spitting
straight
downward
A person
running into
another and
both falling
over.
CL:3
Classifier
3
CL:3 =
several
different
categories
Vehicles
or
vehicle
related
events:
car or
truck
parking a
car
driving
erratically
parallel
parking
angled
parking
backing
in
parking
3 car
garage
parking
in a
carport
stuck in
snow
types of
car
accidents
head on
collision
rear
ended
side
swipe
broadside
roll-over
A car
was
here.
A car was
coming
toward
me.
Motor
cycle
popping
a
wheelie
jumping
a row of
cars
going
between
two cars
CL:3
Tractor
movement
helicopter
movement
bus
pulled up
CL:3
(groups
of 3)
3 people
crossing
the road
three on
three
Related
concept:
numerical
indexing
The
three of
you.
The
three of
them.
The
three of
us.
CL:3
Feet
Walking
(version)
hiking
(version)
duck
walking
or
paddling
CL:3
liquid
sprayer
spray
painting
a house
CL:3
video
record
(version)
CL:3
"Sails on
a boat."
CL:3(bent)
gripping
of small
objects
computer
mouse
baseball
bowling
ball
bite out
of apple
CL:3(bent)
beaks
and bills
A duck's
bill
snapping
turtle
large
birds of
prey
snapping
CL:3(bent)
talons
bird
catching
prey
CL:3(bent)
Hands
climbing
large object,
wall or cliff
stocking
shelves
investing
in stocks
Containers
held by
index and
thumb
syringe
(needle)
vaccin
ations
Lexicalized
classifiers:
= former
classifiers
…
that have
become
standard
signs:
Sign:
AWKWARD
Sign:
GARAGE
Sign:
ACCIDENT
Sign:
PARKED
Sign:
PARKING
-LOT
Sign:
INVEST
Sign:
INVESTING
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Vicars
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