This DVD, designed to be used with the text, offers the most comprehensive explanation of ASL grammar currently available. It provides more than 300 examples of the grammatical features discussed in all three student texts.

Topics include:

• Time: signs used to communicate information about time
  
• Pronominalization: handshapes used for pronominal reference
  
• Subjects & Objects: ways in which ASL indicates grammatical role of nouns in sentences
  
• Classifiers: special set of signs that function as pronouns, move as verbs, show spatial location, indicate manner of an action, describe characteristics of a person or thing
  
• Locatives: relationships between referents and the locations of various actions and events
  
• Pluralization: different kinds of signs used to show that there is more than one of something
  
• Temporal Aspect: movements and meanings of four verb inflections that provide info about the duration and/or frequency of an event
  
• Distributional Aspect: inflections used to give more detailed information about the "distribution" of an event

Native signer MJ Bienvenu illustrates these examples. Together with the text, this series is truly a comprehensive package for teaching and learning American Sign Language. [Charlotte Baker-Shenk, Dennis Cokely; (2007) DVD: 1 hour] DVDs not returnable once included]