Dr Bill Vicars Lifeprint com Classifiers Classifier 4
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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:
curtain styles
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
Motorcycle jumping 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: 3 Walking (version)
CL: 3 hiking (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
Worm movement is a classifier
Is a computer mouse a classifier?
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 classifiers used to be classifiers
… but are now just regular signs.
Give me an example of a lexicalized 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
IMMIGRA TION/ad mittance
PLAID = Scotland
BLOOD
"LINE-ofpeople, "
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!
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