Una aproximación morfológica a las construcciones clasificatorias en la lengua de signos española

Abstract

Since the pioneering work of Ted Supalla in 1978, it has been demostrated that sign languages use classifiers, specially in classifier predicates, in a typologically congruent way that seems nevertheless to exceed the limits of oral channel. In this article we review the main approaches to classifiers in sign and oral languages and provide the clasificatory system in Spanish Sign Language (LSE) with morphological criteria typologically attested. We differentiate between classificatory nouns and predicate classifiers, and between introflexive classifiers and classifier prefixes.