Question about time indicators

Question

I know that specific time indicators come first (like past, future, today, yesterday, tomorrow, 5am, etc) before the topic of an ASL sentence and general time indicators come after the comment (later, not yet, etc). I am wondering, can there be 2 specific time indicators, or would one be considered the topic (I am asking because part of my assignment is to write 5 sentences in English, and gloss the sentences in ASL showing specific time, topic, comment, yes no question, wh-question, general time)? Here is an example (for those wondering, this is an example, I will not use this sentence as part of my assignment): English: I got out of bed today at 5am. ASL: TODAY, TIME 5 MORNING, I GET-UP. In this sentence, both TODAY and TIME 5 MORNING appear to be specific times, and there would be no topic, just the comment I GET-UP. I could easily change the sentence to "My father woke up today at 5am." to make sure there is a topic (in this case MY FATHER) but I'm wondering if its proper to have 2 specific time indicators in one ASL sentence or is there a better way of signing this (like "NOW MORNING TIME 5, I GET-UP.") We just started going over proper use of time indicators, and haven't really had many examples where there were 2 specific times indicated, so I am just not sure how this would be signed aside from the example I wrote above. Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Typically we go from general to more specific when you are describing something. I would say Morning 5am I get up.

You got this. Great job.