Another great video. This is amazing at explaining Proforms! I can understand what they are now. I would love to see more linguistic videos, I've watched all the ones you've put on here and I'm very interested in it xxx
i'm learning about this in uni now but i still don't get what a proform atually is. You keep saying that it replaces a noun but the noun never gets replaced, you always just sign the sentence like normal. For example you signed the sign for "man" so how/ what did the get replaced with? I'm so confused someone please help
for the 2nd example, you said you identified the noun (car) first and then replaced it with a proform, but what does that actually mean? Does proform just mean a sign that's a noun? And does the handshape of the proform always stay the same for each example that you gave? Eg is the proform always a b handshape for car?
Hi thankyou for your question. Basically a pro form stands in place of a form. For example the flat B handshape is the pro form for car. Pro forms are really useful in BSL as they show lots of grammatical info. There is a good BSL linguist site that may help, it’s BSL QED. Hope it’s useful.
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Another great video. This is amazing at explaining Proforms! I can understand what they are now. I would love to see more linguistic videos, I've watched all the ones you've put on here and I'm very interested in it xxx
This was really interesting. I think it's something I had unconsciously noticed, because your explanation made so much sense.
Thank you very much, you’re right when you sign i think it can be just an automatic thing you do,
Thanks, Mel. That was explained really clearly.
Karen Ladomery Thank you 😊 karen
Thank you Mel 🌟 I understand what you are teaching x
Susan Sharples That’s good, thank you Susan 😃
Great to know the name of the thing I’ve been noticing. Thanks! Awesome explanation.
Thank you steven
Thank you so much, this is really interesting!!
Adéla Pafková Thank you very much Adela.
i'm learning about this in uni now but i still don't get what a proform atually is. You keep saying that it replaces a noun but the noun never gets replaced, you always just sign the sentence like normal. For example you signed the sign for "man" so how/ what did the get replaced with? I'm so confused someone please help
for the 2nd example, you said you identified the noun (car) first and then replaced it with a proform, but what does that actually mean? Does proform just mean a sign that's a noun? And does the handshape of the proform always stay the same for each example that you gave? Eg is the proform always a b handshape for car?
Hi thankyou for your question. Basically a pro form stands in place of a form. For example the flat B handshape is the pro form for car. Pro forms are really useful in BSL as they show lots of grammatical info. There is a good BSL linguist site that may help, it’s BSL QED. Hope it’s useful.
BSL learning with Mel thanks but I can’t use that website because I don’t have adobe ☹️
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