A Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)

5.1.2. Bodypart classifiers

An important group of semantic classifiers includes those referring to parts of the body, both human and animal:

 

cl(B): ‘legs of a person’

 

 

cl(|): ‘feet’

 

 

 

cl(1): ‘head’

 

 

cl(:): ‘tongue’

 

 

 

cl(j): ‘lips’

 

 

cl()): ‘teeth’

 

 

cl(v): ‘eyelashes’

 

 

cl(o): ‘eyes’

 

 

cl(a): ‘eye balls’

 

 

cl(y): ‘eye lids’

 

 

cl(+): ‘eye lids’

 

 

cl(5): ‘breasts’

 

 

cl(9): ‘nipples’

 

 

cl(B): ‘penis’

 

 

cl(y): ‘testicles’

 

 

cl(#): ‘vulva’

 

 

cl(c): ‘vagina’

 

 

cl(p): ‘hair’

 

 

cl(d): ‘eyebrows’

 

 

cl(l): ‘ears’

 

 

cl(>): ‘toes’

 

 

cl(y): ‘thin paws’

 

 

cl(1): ‘thick paws’

 

 

cl(z): ‘frog legs’

 

 

cl(|): ‘penguin feet’

 

 

cl(y): ‘animal head’

 

 

cl(i): ‘beak’

 

 

 

cl(s): ‘fine tongue’                            

  (all examples are recreated from Quer et al., 2005)

 

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Josep Quer and Gemma Barberà

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© 2020 Gemma Barberà, Sara Cañas-Peña, Berta Moya-Avilés, Alexandra Navarrete-González, Josep Quer, Raquel Veiga Busto, Aida Villaécija, Giorgia Zorzi

Bibliographical reference for citation

The entire grammar:
Quer, Josep and Gemma Barberà (eds.). 2020. A Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC). 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series). (www.thesignhub.eu/grammar/lsc) (Accessed 31-10-2021)

A Chapter:
Surname, Name. 2020. Syntax: 3. Coordination and Subordination. In Josep Quer and Gemma Barberà (eds.), A Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC). 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series). (www.thesignhub.eu/grammar/lsc) (Accessed 31-10-2021)

A Section:
Surname, Name. 2020. Phonology: 1.1.1.2. Finger configuration. In Josep Quer and Gemma Barberà (eds.), A Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC). 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series). (www.thesignhub.eu/grammar/lsc) (Accessed 31-10-2021)

Surname, Name. 2020. Syntax: 3.1.2.1.3. Manual markers in disjunctive coordination. In Josep Quer and Gemma Barberà (eds.), A Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC). 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series). (www.thesignhub.eu/grammar/lsc) (Accessed 31-10-2021)