Locative Classifier sign represents an object in a specific place (and sometimes indicating movement). Handshape is given, followed by spatial or locative information italicized and in quotation marks.

LCL: B “leaf drifting to the ground” LCL: 3 “car weaving on the road” LCL: H “spoon in a drawer” LCL: V “jumping off the edge” LCL: 1 “toss ball high in the air” LCL: 1 “toss ball low and straight”

Instrument classifier sign in which part of the body (usually the hands) manipulates the object.

ICL: “turn crank” ICL: “play jacks” ICL: “hand cup across the table” ICL: “scrap ice off the window” ICL: “give someone a bouquet of flowers” ICL: “toss a ball” ICL: “catch a ball”

Used for? Post, remember, letter (sticky) which Nut Self, any, other Establish, commute Game, race, pass, ahead,behind, sweetheart, interact

Used for? Nice/clean Trouble, lecture Paper, door window Blue School Song Dead Focus plan, bother song after

Used for? New Marry Night\english Scooping Swim Hanging from a cliff climb

Used for? Tall Flat, straight, even Distance Building Pig Easy, almost Close, before, after Define boundaries or amounts

Used for? Monster – claws bear Monkey Lion (poofy (thick) hair) stripes washer Messed up mix\ Machine, breakdown Roommate (spin off of “cog” Building location

Used for? Eyes (search, computer, Shock, binocular thick Talk (communicate Strange Hungry (hollow) Chocolate, church Separate initialization from actual classifier

Used for? Word, little word Watch, observe Pincher Width, size (large) badge

Used for? Grapes, freckles, (dots) Rake, stripes Mass of, crowed

Used for? Movie, cheese, wonderful wavy Open fingers mean porous, dirty Action classifier

Used for? Manage, celebrate, write, from, mexico, key (holding something, apple, neat

Used for? Line, Invent, create, speak,jail, calendar, grid, line of people, porous

Used for? Time, minute, hour, (minute, hour hand Criticize, think Deaf, person, only, hearing, hearing brain, meet, tell Alone, fake

Used for? Foolish, play, wrong, fat, obese, sillly, now, today, phone, subway, still, stay, same as, cow, holland, pipe,

Used for? Fix, sew, pot(holding tools) Explain (sentence) Captioning, stretching, the length of a sentence Soon, close by a hair

Used for?, pond, lake puddle dish

Used for? Egg\short\butter\ bacon, hallowen, name, funny, cute, fun, seat, knife, belt, train, hotel, narrow, but not skinny – some width, seat relative

Used for? Camping, kids, cigarette, snob, Bullsh*t, alcohol, plane?, prongs, horns, Length, tent poles, castle, streamers, telephone wires

Used for? Teach, store, food, more, kiss, buy, money,, perfect, just right, flat head, goose, dinosaur, Move, home, put, actual clasping of the object Iconic: it shows what it’s used for

Used for?, mischievous, climbing, claws, hawk, lousy, orgasm,, insect Listening (pull in sound) Selfish (claw) sharp

Used for? Hard, problem, physics, Skate, rollerskate, Quote, issues, subject Toss and turn, switch, transfr, travel sit, steal, potato, irish, bent legs, kicking in the air laughing, bones, seizures Whirlwind travel tasmnian devil kind of travel, bus

Used for? Tease, witch, nosy, sex, gift, friend, need, teeth, dentist, recent, red, egypt Scorpion, change, sting, hook, anchor, scratch Addict, hang from, hang up (chains), tease, barbed teasing is not always funny

Used for? a lot of initalization Ready, reason, register, restaurant, rose, rules CL: ringlets, braid, tight knit, rope, cigar, ribbon,

Used for? Initialized: laugh, library, language, level, lunch, lazy, law, live CL: awake, shot, syringe, size, gun, shoot, welding, drill,

Used for? Years, can, container, round object (ball, world, head) Action – pulling iconic action baseball Drums are tool Hands nailed to the wall, crucify, stab in the back

Used for? Small and skinny, placement Deaf school (initialized) island (initialized) suppose, insurance, infection, idiot, japan