Chapter 3. Verbal inflection
In LEXICON 3.2, a preliminary description of the three categories of verbs (plain verbs, agreement verbs and spatial verbs) detected in LIS has been provided, focussing on their articulation and possibility to show overt morphological agreement with their arguments.
The present chapter improves the description of the three verb classes considering the inflectional morphological processes involved to convey not only agreement (of person, location and number) (MORPHOLOGY 3.1), but also tense (MORPHOLOGY 3.2) and aspect (MORPHOLOGY 3.3). Notice that these morphosyntactic features are mainly encoded through i) spatial relations among loci, which are specific points of the signing space associated to the argument(s) of the verb, ii) reduplication of the verb sign and/or iii) modification of the point(s) of articulation, path-movement (if any) and/or orientation of the verb sign.
