• Locative Classifier sign represents an object in
a specific place (and sometimes indicating
movement). Handshape is given, followed by
spatial or locative information italicized and in
quotation marks.
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LCL: B “leaf drifting to the ground”
LCL: 3 “car weaving on the road”
LCL: H “spoon in a drawer”
LCL: V “jumping off the edge”
LCL: 1 “toss ball high in the air”
LCL: 1 “toss ball low and straight”
• Instrument classifier sign in which part of the
body (usually the hands) manipulates the
object.
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“turn crank”
“play jacks”
“hand cup across the table”
“scrap ice off the window”
“give someone a bouquet of flowers”
“toss a ball”
“catch a ball”
Used for?
Post, remember, letter
(sticky)
which
Nut
Self, any, other
Establish, commute
Game, race, pass,
ahead,behind,
sweetheart, interact
Used for?
Nice/clean
Trouble, lecture
Paper, door window
Blue
School
Song
Dead
Focus plan, bother song
after
Used for?
New
Marry
Night\english
Scooping
Swim
Hanging from a cliff
climb
Used for?
Tall
Flat, straight, even
Distance
Building
Pig
Easy, almost
Close, before, after
Define boundaries or
amounts
Used for?
Monster – claws bear
Monkey
Lion (poofy (thick) hair)
stripes
washer
Messed up
mix\
Machine, breakdown
Roommate (spin off of
“cog”
Building location
Used for?
Eyes (search, computer,
Shock, binocular
thick
Talk (communicate
Strange
Hungry (hollow)
Chocolate, church
Separate initialization
from actual classifier
Used for?
Word, little word
Watch, observe
Pincher
Width, size (large)
badge
Used for?
Grapes, freckles,
(dots)
Rake, stripes
Mass of, crowed
Used for?
Movie, cheese,
wonderful wavy
Open fingers mean
porous, dirty
Action classifier
Used for?
Manage, celebrate,
write, from,
mexico, key
(holding
something, apple,
neat
Used for?
Line,
Invent, create,
speak,jail,
calendar, grid,
line of people,
porous
Used for?
Time, minute, hour,
(minute, hour hand
Criticize, think
Deaf, person, only,
hearing, hearing
brain, meet, tell
Alone, fake
Used for?
Foolish, play,
wrong, fat, obese,
sillly, now, today,
phone, subway,
still, stay, same
as, cow, holland,
pipe,
Used for? Fix, sew,
pot(holding tools)
Explain (sentence)
Captioning,
stretching, the
length of a
sentence
Soon, close by a
hair
Used for?, pond,
lake puddle dish
Used for?
Egg\short\butter\
bacon, hallowen,
name, funny, cute,
fun, seat, knife,
belt, train, hotel,
narrow, but not
skinny – some
width, seat
relative
Used for?
Camping, kids,
cigarette, snob,
Bullsh*t, alcohol,
plane?, prongs,
horns,
Length, tent poles,
castle, streamers,
telephone wires
Used for? Teach,
store, food, more,
kiss, buy, money, ,
perfect, just right,
flat head, goose,
dinosaur,
Move, home, put,
actual clasping of
the object
Iconic: it shows what
it’s used for
Used for?,
mischievous,
climbing, claws,
hawk, lousy,
orgasm, , insect
Listening (pull in
sound)
Selfish (claw) sharp
Used for?
Hard, problem, physics,
Skate, rollerskate,
Quote, issues, subject
Toss and turn, switch,
transfr, travel sit, steal,
potato, irish, bent legs,
kicking in the air
laughing, bones,
seizures
Whirlwind travel
tasmnian devil kind of
travel, bus
Used for?
Tease, witch, nosy,
sex, gift, friend,
need, teeth,
dentist, recent,
red, egypt
Scorpion, change,
sting, hook,
anchor, scratch
Addict, hang from,
hang up (chains),
tease, barbed
teasing is not
always funny
Used for?
a lot of initalization
Ready, reason,
register,
restaurant, rose,
rules
CL: ringlets, braid,
tight knit, rope ,
cigar, ribbon,
Used for?
Initialized: laugh,
library, language,
level, lunch, lazy,
law, live
CL: awake, shot,
syringe, size, gun,
shoot, welding,
drill,
Used for? Years, can,
container, round
object (ball, world,
head)
Action – pulling
iconic action
baseball
Drums are tool
Hands nailed to the
wall, crucify, stab
in the back
Used for? Small and
skinny, placement
Deaf school
(initialized) island
(initialized)
suppose,
insurance,
infection, idiot,
japan