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Abstract：
Sign languages are frequently described as having three verb classes. One, \'agreeing\' verbs, indicates the person/number of its subject and object by modification of the beginning and ending locations of the verb. The second, \'spatial\' verbs, makes a similar appearing modification of verb movement to represent the source and goal locations of the theme of a verb of motion. The third class, \'plain\' verbs, is characterized as having neither of these types of modulations. A number of researchers have proposed accounts that collapse all of these types, or the person-agreeing and spatial verbs. Here we present evidence from late learners of American Sign Language and from the emergence of new sign languages that person agreement and locative agreement have a different status in these conditions, and we claim their analysis should be kept distinct, at least in certain ways.
摘要：
手语经常被描述为具有三个动词类。一,\'同意\'动词，通过修改动词的开始和结束位置来指示其主语和宾语的人/号码。第二个,\'空间\'动词,对动词运动进行类似的出现修改，以表示运动动词主题的源和目标位置。第三类,\'普通\'动词,其特征在于没有这些类型的调制。许多研究人员提出了使所有这些类型崩溃的帐户，或人同意和空间动词。在这里，我们提供了来自美国手语的晚期学习者以及新手语的出现的证据，表明在这些条件下，人协议和位置协议具有不同的地位，我们声称他们的分析应该保持清晰，至少在某些方面。
