Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/To clarify our misunderstanding earlier/reply (8)

ASL has nothing to do with english at all. the structure is as different from indo European languages as I can imagine - for a host of reasons.

For what it's worth, ASL is closely related to French sign, but again, it's not based on French. The only real connection to english is borrowed vocabs. In the way English borrows "tsunami" from Japaneses.

If you care, ASL doesn't have a copula, doesn't really have subject/object, but rather "topic". (I have a hard time with that, by the way. I cannot think in ASL, cause i can't figure out what a topic is.  Japanese uses topics.)