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This paper offers a first description of non-truth conditional meaning in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). It analyses conventional implicatures, conversational implicatures and presuppositions, and different devices and structures that trigger them, such as the use of signing space, role shift, classifier constructions, focus particles, connectives, implicative verbs, parentheticals, clefts and interrogatives.

The goal of this research is to describe the syntactic, prosodic, and morphophonological markers that are found in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) to express different informational structural notions. Moreover, it offers a first approach to the expression of exhaustivity in LSC through different structures, such as focus particles and cleft constructions. Aquesta contribució ha estat possible gràcies al projecte SIGN-HUB, que ha rebut finançament del programa Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (subvenció nº 693349), al Ministeri espanyol d’Economia i Competitivitat (FFI2015-68594-P), i al govern de la Generalitat de Catalunya (2014 SGR 698).