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|CHILD<sub>1</sub> MOTHER<sub>2</sub> FLOWER Cl<sub>thin-object</sub>-<sub>1</sub>GIVE<sub>2</sub>||The child gives a flower to the mother.}}
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|CHILD<sub>1</sub> MOTHER<sub>2</sub> APPLE Cl<sub>round-object</sub>-<sub>1</sub>GIVE<sub>2</sub>||The child gives an apple to the mother.}}There are also correlations in [[American Sign Language]] (ASL) between specific types of classifier constructions and the kind of [[Valency (linguistics)|argument structure]] they have:{{Sfn|Carlo|2014|p=52}}
# Predicates with a handling classifier are [[Transitive verb|transitive]] (with an external and an internal argument)
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Whole entity classifiers and handling classifiers are the most established classifier types.{{Sfn|Zwisterlood|2012|p=162}} The former occur with [[Intransitive verb|intransitive verbs]], the latter occur with [[Transitive verb|transitive verbs]].{{Sfn|Zwitserlood|2012|p=167}} Most linguists don't consider extension and surface classifiers to be true classifiers.{{Sfn|Zwisterlood|2012|p=162}} This is because they appear in a larger range of syntactic positions. They also cannot be referred back to [[Anaphora (linguistics)|anaphorically]] in the discourse, nor can they be combined with motion verbs.{{Sfn|Zwisterlood|2012|p=162}}
Certain types of classifiers and movements cannot be combined for grammatical reasons. For example, in
<!-- cross-linguistic comparison -->There is little research on the differences in classifier constructions across sign languages.{{Sfn|Zwitserlood|2012|p=158}} Most seem to have them and can be described in similar terms.{{Sfn|Zwitserlood|2012|p=158}} Many unrelated languages encode the same entity with similar handshapes.{{Sfn|Schembri|2003|p=26}} This is even the case for children not exposed to language who use a [[home sign]] system to communicate.{{Sfn|Schembri|2003|p=26}} Handling classifiers along with extension and surface classifiers are especially likely to be the same across languages.{{Sfn|Schembri|2003|p=26}}
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