ABSTRACT
The two chapters before this one each dealt with verbs. It makes sense to pay so much attention to this part of speech, since the verb is often the heart of the event described in a sentence. And we’ve seen that the verbs of ISL have some of the same grammatical characteristics as verbs in many other languages. But there are differences too. In fact, when you try to translate certain verbs from a spoken language into a sign language, you may encounter the following problem: for one word, there are many possible translations in sign language, depending on what types of participants are involved in the event.
