Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:07:27 -0800, Patrick Chew
> <patchew@...> wrote:
> [...]
> > experienced field practitioners (read: professors). One of the largest
> > debated points we had was how to "transcribe" this heretofore unknown
> > signed language. We have IPA for spoken languages, to cover the wide and
> > diverse range of possibilities, but what had we for signed languages.
>
> Just a thought: Human body movement (and, in some cases, movement of
> several bodies) has been transcribed by various dance notations, including
> those by Feuillet and Laban, iirc; (also Benesh?). This made me wonder
> about some fundamentally-related scheme; I know nothing about those
> mentioned for sign language, so maybe they are "already" akin to dance
> notations.
>
> This is a comment by a dilettante, so it could be close to fantasy or to
> deep ignorance! :)

See Farnell in WWS with refs.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...