This week we will be discussing the fourth chapter of Battison's (1978) book Lexical Borrowing in American Sign Language. In this chapter (Loan Signs from Fingerspelled Words), she discusses the borrowing of English words into ASL via the morphophonological adaptation and semantic alteration of fingerspelled representations of English lexical items. Battison’s (1978) work is not the most modern resource on this topic, but it is a classic, and its analysis is both thorough and informative.