NIC Written exam

[JennyB]

Anyone know how can you tell if the temporal aspect is the proper tense, past , present or future? I just realized this after looking at my book.

...like how tense is identified in ASL?

You use a tense marker at some point. So you may start a sentence with PAST-ME-DATE-*insert name here*, because of the PAST you know this is past tense. Or the use of FINISH. So EAT-FINISH means that you already ate, therefore, past tense.

Or WILL-CLEAN means that you will clean in the future.

Is this what you were asking?

 

[Etoile]

Here are some situations when it has happened for me. For one course I had these stupid sound clips that had to be interpreted for me every week. There were some that the interpreter said were ridiculously complex and full of fancy words and more "showy" than informational. So she would listen to them in full and then interpret it after. If she tried to simultaneously interpret she couldn't.

Great answer! That question had stumped me. I know I've done consecutive interpreting on occasion but I couldn't think of any examples. And the temporal question I didn't even understand!

 

[JennyB]

Great answer! That question had stumped me. I know I've done consecutive interpreting on occasion but I couldn't think of any examples. And the temporal question I didn't even understand!

Thanks! hehe

I am not sure if that is the answer that was being sought out for the tense question...if it isn't clarify and I can try again! I'm a linguistics student and I like these things!

 

[Rio]

...like how tense is identified in ASL?

You use a tense marker at some point. So you may start a sentence with PAST-ME-DATE-*insert name here*, because of the PAST you know this is past tense. Or the use of FINISH. So EAT-FINISH means that you already ate, therefore, past tense.

Or WILL-CLEAN means that you will clean in the future.

Is this what you were asking?

Yes, thanks I was wondering if the "finish did indicate its past. How would I know if something is present and future? Do you indicate something like "now" for present and "will for doing something in the future?

for example : I study all night long, using temporal aspect you need to show the wiggly fingers in motion you studied for a long time.

 

[JennyB]

Yes, thanks I was wondering if the "finish did indicate its past. How would I know if something is present and future? Do you indicate something like "now" for present and "will for doing something in the future?

for example : I study all night long, using temporal aspect you need to show the wiggly fingers in motion you studied for a long time.

I study all night long...

So you could sign I-USUALLY-STUDY-OVERNIGHT. Or to show present NOW-ME-STUDY-OVERNIGHT. To show past BEFORE-ME-STUDY-OVERNIGHT. To show future WILL-STUDY-OVERNIGHT.

Keep in my that to show for a long time you would wiggle the fingers, yes, but also use what I call the "lalala" mouth morpheme.

 

[Etoile]

I agree - lengthening the STUDY sign indicates "for a long time" but doesn't specify when you are doing it. OVERNIGHT or WILL specify the when, not the how long.

 

[Reba]

"Cramming" overnight is done a little differently from just "studying" overnight also.

Instead of wiggling the dominant hand fingers, they are held steady and repeatedly jammed into the palm of the hand.

We use that sign a lot in the college setting.

 

[Rio]

I agree - lengthening the STUDY sign indicates "for a long time" but doesn't specify when you are doing it. OVERNIGHT or WILL specify the when, not the how long.

In this case, it would be in the present tense? If it was past, do you need to indicate "past" ?
Oops! I overlooked #45