LIS exclamatives are often produced with the articulation of the sign very, illustrated in the picture below.
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The following is an example of an exclamative sentence produced with the sign very.
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palm_up surprise very beautiful exactly
‘It is really a beautiful surprise!’
The sign very is not a marker exclusively used in exclamative sentences, though. Its status as a sign or as a gesture belonging to the Italian culture is still controversial. Our informants often use it in exclamative sentences but its position is not fixed, as shown by the examples below.
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a. cold very
‘How cold!’
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b. very back ix1 pain very
‘What a bad backache!’