A Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)

Non-manual markers are the main way to encode conjunction in LSC, using body leans or head tilts. These non-manual markers are aligned with the location in the space of the conjuncts in the contralateral or ipsilateral sides of the signing space. Sometimes head thrust is used on the last sign of the conjunct, as we can see in example (b) below. It is unclear whether head thrust is, in this case, a marker of conjunction or a prosodic marker of phrase boundary.

                                                  hth                        hth

                            re           bl-left                  bl-right  

a) marina pizza eat [icecream buy]_[ipsi].

    ‘Marina will eat pizza and will buy an ice-cream.’

(© Giorgia Zorzi 2018. Reprinted with permission from Zorzi, 2018b: 109)

                                                           bl-right

                                re         eb          re       hth

b) marina dance [jordi chat]_[ipsi].

                ‘Marina danced and Jordi chatted.’

(© Giorgia Zorzi 2018. Reprinted with permission from Zorzi, 2018b: 109)