The Meaning of Space in Sign Language : Reference Specificity and Structure in Catalan Sign Language Discourse Frontmatter Acknowledgements Contents List of Figures List of tables Abbreviations Notational conventions Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Space in sign languages: background Chapter 3. A morpheme on spatial planes Chapter 4. Spatial locations and discourse referents Chapter 5. Deixis and familiarity Chapter 6. Specificity Chapter 7. Discourse structure and prominence Chapter 8. Final remarks Appendix Notes References Index Bringing together sign language linguistics and the semantics pragmatics interface this book focuses on the use of signing space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). On the basis of small scale corpus data it provides an exhaustive description of referential devices dependent on space. The book provides insight into the study of meaning in the visual spatial modality and into our understanding of the discourse behavior of spatial locations