FlatB@Chest-PalmBack

American Sign Language

Alternative forms

• (with the “open B” handshape) OpenB@Chest-PalmBack

Etymology

This sign uses the same handshape as all ASL possessives, e.g. FlatB@Chesthigh-FingerUp (“your, his, her, its”), and FlatB@IpsiChest-FingerUpPalmAcross RoundHoriz FlatB@ContraChest-FingerUpPalmAside (“our, ours”). Its location indexes the first person (the signer).

Production

• This one-handed ASL sign is produced as follows:

  1. 

     Posture the dominant hand in the “flat B” handshape on the chest, dominant palm facing back.

Adjective

(ASL gloss: MY, POSS-1)

1. my

Noun

(ASL gloss: MY)

1. mine

Related terms

• FlatB@IpsiChest-FingerUpPalmAcross RoundHoriz FlatB@ContraChest-FingerUpPalmAside (“our”)