TExES American Sign Language (ASL) (184) Practice Test

Inflecting (directional) verbs are signed with movement that encodes who is performing the action and who is receiving it. You establish the subject in one location in signing space and then move the verb toward the location representing the object, so the direction of the sign itself shows who acts and to whom. This is what lets the verb carry subject–object information through movement, without needing separate pronouns. Plain verbs don’t change for subject or object, static location verbs just indicate where something is, and non-directional verbs don’t use directional movement to show participants.