The syntax of cardinal numerals in Italian Sign Language (LIS)

This paper aims at investigating the syntactic behavior of cardinal numerals in Italian Sign Language (LIS). In particular, we will address the distribution of cardinals functioning as modifiers in the nominal domain. This topic will be discussed on the basis of different data sources (i.e. corpus data, elicited data, and acceptability judgments) with the purpose to benefit from the advantages of each source. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 introduces the methodology of data collection, sections 3 and 4 illustrate the distribution of cardinal numerals in LIS. The analysis is proposed in section 5, while section 6 concludes the paper.