by
Leland McCleary
University
of São Paulo
Currents in Electronic Literacy Spring 2001 (4), <http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/spr01/mccleary.html>
Endnotes
18. Verbs (“poder” can, “procurar”, look for, “saber” know, etc.) are always written in the infinitive presentation form. Adjectives which in Portuguese are inflected for gender and number are written with @ to indicate that Brazilian Sign Language does not inflect them. In this passage, no special marking of facial expression, classifiers, verb agreement or signing hand are present.