A Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)

In conjunction in LSC, the spreading of non-manual markers such as body lean and head tilt can vary and their absence can be compensated by localizing the conjuncts in the signing space. In the examples that follow it is clear that the non-manual markers tend to spread over each conjunct, as in (a) and (b). In (c), though, the first conjunct is not marked because the verb dance involves the use of the whole upper body and therefore it makes it impossible to use of the non-manual markers just described. Their absence in the first conjunct is compensated by the non-manual markers used in the second one.

                                bl-left           bl-right

                               re                                re    shn

            a) marina cake make  jordi sell.

                ‘Marina made a cake and Jordi sold it.’

(© Giorgia Zorzi 2018. Reprinted with permission from Zorzi, 2018b: 110)

                                                      re                   bl-left                                              re                bl-right

b) list-1-ix_a marc cake cl: ‘bake’_[contra] list-2-ix_b marina pizza cl: ‘bake’_[ipsi].

                ‘On the one hand, Marc baked a cake and on the other, Marina baked a pizza.’

(© Giorgia Zorzi 2018. Reprinted with permission from Zorzi, 2018b: 116)

                                                              bl-right

                              re           eb          re       hth

c) marina dance [jordi chat]_[ipsi].

                ‘Marina danced and Jordi chatted.’

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