A Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)

1.4.2. Non-manual marking

In LSC, specificity is marked with eyes wide open, sucking the cheeks in, pulling the mouth ends down, and sometimes in combination with a shrug. When the indefinite noun phrase corresponds to a non-specific discourse referent, which is therefore not identifiable by the signer and does not belong to a restricted set, the articulation of the non-manual is aligned with a particular eye gaze. A non-fixed eye gaze towards a high location is used, as shown below, and the corresponding darting eye gaze is aligned with the noun phrase.

Non-fixed eye gaze

(recreated from Barberà, 2012: 301)

List of editors

Josep Quer and Gemma Barberà

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)