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).

This research was partially supported by a Research Incentive Grant from the School of Liberal Arts at Purdue University (to E.Benedicto), by Project H072 at the Universidad Nacional del Comahue (to S. Cvejanov), as well as by research grant BFF2003-04867 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology and by an AGAUR/PCI 2003 grant from Generalitat de Catalunya/DURSI (to J.Quer).