A@Chest-RadialBack Contact

• (rotated with the knuckles facing toward the signer) A@Chest-TipBack Contact
• (with the “open A” handshape) OpenA@Chest-RadialBack
• (emphatic form, made with a large, quick motion, without the repeated contact) A@Chest-RadialBack

The same handshape as various signs indicating oneself, e.g. A@RadialFinger-1@Center-FingerUp (“oneself”), and the same location as other first person pronouns.

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• This one-handed ASL sign is produced as follows:
  1. Posture the dominant hand in a shape similar to the “A” handshape (i.e. with the fingers together and curled into a fist, the thumb unopposed and closed) but with the tip of the thumb extended about an inch past the edge of the index finger on the chest, radial (thumb-side) edge of the dominant hand facing back.
  2. Touch the back of the thumb twice against the chest.
  3. Hold the hand still briefly.

‌If you can, please upload a png or jpg image showing the production of this sign. (ASL glosses: MYSELF, SELF-ONLY-1)

1. I myself; only I; I and no one else

This sign indicates that the signer alone satisfies the sentence predicate. This pronoun and the related SELF-ONLY signs are only used as subjects.

• A@Chesthigh SmallFrontandback (“SELF-ONLY, you yourself, he himself, she herself”)
• A@IpsiChest-RadialBack A@ContraChest-RadialBack (“SELF-ONLY-PL-1, we ourselves”)
• A@Chesthigh RoundHoriz (“SELF-ONLY-PL, you yourselves, they themselves”)
• A@RadialFinger-1@Center-FingerUp (“self, oneself”)