A Basic Course in American Sign Language

by Humphries, Tom; Radden, Carol; O'Rourke, Terrence J.

• ISBN13: 9780932666437
• ISBN10: 0932666434
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Amazon.Com

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(13)
Lesson 1	14	(8)
Personal Pronouns	14	(1)
Basic Sentence Structure: Sentences With Predicate Adjectives	15	(7)
Lesson 2	22	(8)
Possessives	22	(1)
Basic Sentence Structure: Sentences With Identifying Nouns	23	(1)
Using Two Third Person Pronouns	24	(1)
Note: Use of Agent Suffix	25	(5)
Lesson 3	30	(10)
Basic Sentence Structure: Sentences With Verbs	30	(1)
Basic Sentence Structure: Pronouns and Nouns	31	(1)
Basic Sentence Structure: Adjectives and Nouns	32	(2)
Descriptive Adjectives	34	(6)
Lesson 4	40	(13)
Negatives	40	(3)
Yes/No Questions	43	(1)
Responses to Yes/No Questions	44	(2)
Negative Questions	46	(7)
DIALOGUE 1	53	(34)
Lesson 5	54	(10)
Basic Sentence Structure: Present and Past Tense	54	(2)
Basic Sentence Structure: Using Finish	56	(1)
Basic Sentence Structure: Future Tense	57	(2)
Note: Establishing the Tense Context	59	(5)
Lesson 6	64	(12)
Basic Sentence Structure: Object + Subject + Verb	64	(1)
Directional and Non-Directional Verbs	65	(2)
Directional Verbs Incorporating HE/SHE/IT	67	(3)
Directional Verbs With Classifiers	70	(6)
Lesson 7	76	(11)
Imperatives	76	(2)
Using Numbers	78	(2)
Personal Pronouns Incorporating Number	80	(1)
Plurals	81	(6)
DIALOGUE 2	87	(30)
Lesson 8	88	(10)
WH-Questions	88	(1)
Other Forms of WH-Questions	89	(2)
The Self Pronoun	91	(7)
Lesson 9	98	(8)
Noun-Verb Pairs	98	(2)
Using Subject as Topic	100	(6)
Lesson 10	106	(11)
Basic Sentence Structure: Using Modals	106	(1)
Using Negative Modals	106	(2)
Using Modals as Responses to Yes/No Questions	108	(9)
DIALOGUE 3	117	(36)
Lesson 11	118	(12)
Adverbials of Place: Here and There	118	(1)
Note: Use of This/That	119	(1)
Verbs Incorporating Location	120	(3)
Finish as Conjunction	123	(7)
Lesson 12	130	(10)
Existential Have	130	(1)
Pronominal Classifiers	131	(2)
Locational Relationships	133	(2)
Note: Adding Movement to Pronominal Classifiers	135	(5)
Lesson 13	140	(13)
Mass Quantifiers	140	(1)
More on Quantifiers	141	(3)
More on Plurals	144	(1)
More on Using Numbers	145	(8)
DIALOGUE 4	153	(30)
Lesson 14	154	(10)
More Negatives	154	(2)
Negative Quantifiers	156	(2)
Use of Nothing	158	(6)
Lesson 15	164	(10)
More Directional Verbs	164	(2)
Directional Verbs Incorporating Two Objects	166	(1)
Directional Verbs Incorporating Each or All	167	(7)
Lesson 16	174	(9)
Time Measurements Incorporating Number	174	(1)
Tense Indicators Incorporating Number	175	(2)
Time Reduplication	177	(2)
Note: More on Time Repetition	179	(4)
DIALOGUE 5	183	(28)
Lesson 17	184	(10)
Using a Clause as Topic	184	(2)
Comparative Sentences	186	(1)
Conjunctions	187	(7)
Lesson 18	194	(8)
Verb Inflection: -Repeatedly	194	(2)
Verb Inflection: -Continually	196	(6)
Lesson 19	202	(9)
Adjective Modulation: Very-	202	(1)
Adjective Modulation: -Repeatedly	203	(2)
Adjective Modulation: -Continually	205	(6)
DIALOGUE 6	211	(30)
Lesson 20	212	(8)
Conditional Sentences	212	(1)
Rhetorical Questions	213	(7)
Lesson 21	220	(12)
Pluralizing Classifiers	220	(2)
Classifier: 1 Incorporating Number	222	(2)
Note: Other Uses of Classifier: 1	224	(2)
More Quantifiers	226	(6)
Lesson 22	232	(9)
Outlining for Shape and Detail	232	(1)
Shaping Objects With Classifiers	233	(2)
Classifiers Showing Motion	235	(6)
DIALOGUE 7	241	(2)
Manual Alphabet	243	(2)
Numbers	245	(3)
References	248	(3)
Answer Key	251	(26)
Vocabulary Index	277