Valency in classifier predicates: A syntactic analysis

The goal of this paper is to explore certain syntactic properties of classifier predicates, in particular, the realization of the argument structure associated with them. The work presented here is a first approach to a crosslinguistic syntactic analysis of two sign languages: Catalan Sign Language (LSC) and Argentinian Sign Language (LSA).11Despite the historical, cultural and linguistic links between Argentina and Spain, there is no attested genetic relationship between the sign languages under study.