Dr. Bill Vicars
Lifeprint.com
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
Lifeprint.com