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self (affix)

Auslan SignbankDictionary#4519 self-affix
#auslan-signbank #phonology.onehand
As Modifier: 1. The sign can combine with verb and adjective signs (usually before them) to describe a person, device or a process that does an action automatically or by itself. English = self- Note: 1. Like the pointing signs listed in this dictionary with the keywords ‘I/me’, ‘you’, ‘he/him’, ‘she/her’, ‘it’, ‘we/us’ and ‘they/them’ this sign can point in any direction. Also, like the possessive pointing signs ‘my/mine’, ‘your/yours’, etc., the sign points or indicates with the palm. It points in the direction of the thing or person it is referring to so it can mean other things and people too, like ‘myself’, ‘itself’, ‘himself’, ‘herself’, ‘ourselves’ and ‘themselves’. Use the keyword search to look at the form and definition of these other directed forms listed in the dictionary.