Sign Linguistics

Agreement verbs
These use “grammatical” space does not always need to be linked to real world space to show their meaning. Places in this grammatical or “syntactic” space are used to show person and number.

Agreement verbs include:

ASK, TELL, GIVE, TELEPHONE, BLAME, CRICTISE, SUPERVISE, INFORM, EXPLAIN-TO and LOOK-AT.

These agreement verbs also inflect to show number e.g. I-ASK-YOU, I-ASK-HER, I-ASK-YOU-TWO, I-ASK-YOU-THREE, I-ASK-ALL-YOU, I-ASK-EACH-OF-THEM etc.