{"id":2435,"date":"2000-01-01T14:28:38","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T06:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:04:35","slug":"the-classifier-system-of-hong-kong-sign-language","status":"publish","type":"research_project","link":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/research_project\/the-classifier-system-of-hong-kong-sign-language\/","title":{"rendered":"The Classifier System of Hong Kong Sign Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Date: 01\/01\/1999\u00a0&#8211;\u00a001\/01\/2000<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 20px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>General summary<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 20px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This research project looked into the complex grammatical properties of the classifier system in Hong Kong Sign Language.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 20px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Aims<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>To identify a set of classifier and handshapes adopted in HKSL<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>To explore how the system operates as a grammatical category<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Activities<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Working with native Deaf signers to identify signs and take pictures of them for analysis<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Collecting data on Asian sign languages through collaborative research between deaf and hearing researchers<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Significance<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>First project in Hong Kong that attempts to explore Hong Kong Sign Language\u2019s classifier system<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Project team<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Gladys Tang<br \/>Ms Felix Sze<br \/>Ms Scholastica Lam<br \/>Mr Kenny Chu<br \/>Ms Brenda Yu<br \/><strong>Output<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Tang, G. (2000, April).\u00a0<strong>Classifiers of Hong Kong Sign Language: Conflation and Lexicalization.<\/strong>\u00a0Paper presented at the Conference on Classifier Constructions in Sign Language, The Salk Institute of Biological Studies, University of California, San Diego, USA.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Tang, G. (2001).\u00a0<strong>Classifiers of Hong Kong Sign Language: A Semantic Universals Perspective.<\/strong>\u00a0In Zhang, Zhengsheng (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twelfth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (pp. 187-207), San Diego University, San Diego, USA.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Tang, G. (2003).\u00a0<strong>Verbs of motion and location in Hong Kong Sign Language: Conflation and Lexicalization in Sign Language.<\/strong>\u00a0In Emmory, Karen (Ed.) Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages (pp. 143-165), Mahwah, NJ, USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"template-content-canvas.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"research_category":[41],"class_list":["post-2435","research_project","type-research_project","status-publish","hentry","research_category-completed-projects"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_project\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/research_project"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_project\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4886,"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_project\/2435\/revisions\/4886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"research_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_category?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}