A Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)

Some adjectives may be used also predicatively. In LSC the same adjectives may be used either as attributive or as predicative. In some contexts distinguishing between the two uses (attributive and predicative) is not a straightforward task since there is not an explicit copula. However, in some examples there is a pause between the subject and the predicate, and specific non-manuals: raised eyebrows in the subject and, sometimes, a head nod in the predicate.

                     _re

a)     joan tall.

‘Joan is tall.’

          _{re                        hn}

b)    book interesting.

‘The book is interesting.’

                  _{re                    hn}

c)     painting beautiful.

‘The painting is beautiful.’

      _{re                   hn}

d)    tea japanese.

‘The tea is japanese.’

                    _{re      hn}

e)     vase new red.

‘The new vase is red.’

             _{re    hn}

f)     house big.

‘The house is big.’

g)    house cl(:): ‘big house’.

‘The house is big.’

h)    house cl(:): ‘small house’.

‘The house is small.’

i)      fly all small(I).

‘All flies are small’

j)      fly all big_index+thumb.

‘All flies are big.’