A Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)

List of notational conventions

EXAMPLE OF CONVENTION	FUNCTION/MEANING
s-i-g-n	fingerspelling
sign++	reduplication
₁sign_{3 2}sign_{1 3a}sign_3b	verb agreement
ix₁	1st person singular, ‘I’
ix_1pl	1st person plural, ‘we’
ix_1+2pl	‘two of us’
ix_1+2pl-incl	‘two of us’ (inclusive)
ix_1+2pl-excl	‘two of us’ (exclusive)
ıx_a	pointing sign referring to an individual or a location
ıx(loc)_a	pointing sign referring to a location
ıx_a(here)	‘here’
ıx(def)_a	definite determiner
ıx(dem)_a	demonstrative determiner
ıx_a[distal], ıx_a[proximal]	index sign, pointing towards a distal or proximal location in signing space
ix₃_pl-arc	3rd person plural with arc movement
ıx(,)₁, ıx(2)₁	first person singular pointing sign with the depicted handshape
ıx_{a[ipsi_down]}	index sign pointing to the lower ipsilateral area
ıx_{a[contra_up]}	index sign pointing to the upper contralateral area
ıx_{a[right_down]}	index sign pointing to the lower rightwards area
ıx_{a[left_up]}	index sign pointing to the upper leftwards area
ıx_a[vertical]	index sign pointing to the vertical plane
ıx_{a[horizontal]}	index sign pointing to the horizontal plane
[sign sign sign]_[right]	sequence of signs localized in the right side of space
^right-sp	in case the brackets are being used for other markings
[sign sign sign]_[left]	sequence of signs localized in the left side of space
^left-sp	in case the brackets are being used for other markings
[sign]_F	focus
[sign]_T	topic
ıx(poss)₁	index sign, 1st person possessive
poss₁	not an index sign, 1st person possessive
show_off, there_is_not, doesn’t_have	one sign translated into English with more than one word
sign_bim	sign articulated bimanually
dh: sign sign sign	sequence of signs articulated with the dominant hand
ndh: sign sign sign	sequence of signs articulated with the non-dominant hand
aux_1, aux_2, not_1, not_2	a functional sign with more than one alternative form
q_prt	question particle
who^some	a sign consisting of more than one morpheme
car-pl	plural marker suffixed to a noun
phone(h1)^type(h2) ‘minicom’	a simultaneous compound. h1 represents the dominant hand and h2 represents the non-dominant hand
Pʃhead ‘psychology’	a compound. The dominant hand represents a letter and touches a part of the body such as the head
exist.not, have.not	a suppletive form with two morphemes
go.impfv	a sign internally modified to express a grammatical function
cl(6): ‘head_bowing’	classifier with this handshape and the meaning indicated
[…]	mouthing or mouth gesture, the representation of the actual phonetic production
/…/	mouthing, the orthographic representation of the mouthed word
[pa]	mouth gesture
rs	role-shift
rs:3a	role-shift into the role of the person represented as 3a
rs: rabbit	role-shift indicating the character the signer is representing