1.1.1.3. Compounds involving Size-and-Shape Specifiers (SASS)
Compounds involving Size-and-Shape Specifiers (SASS) are treated separately from the rest of the compounds because it is not clear which element functions as head. In LSC, it is possible to find a SASS compound formed by a lexical or pointing sign followed by a SASS.
ix^cl(<): ‘description of the collar shape’ (‘cervical collar’)
(extracted from the corpus created in Villaécija, 2019)
As in the rest of sign languages, SASS may also work as adjectives, modifying a noun and, therefore, they do not create any compounds. However, as the example provided above illustrates, some SASS are lexicalized. This example refers to a cervical collar and does not refer to, for example, an angina/neck inflammation, which is what the signer is “literally” signing.