Evaluative Morphology in Sign Languages

Addressing the question of evaluative morphology and its specificity in sign languages (SLs), whether in a comparative perspective or with a language-specific purpose, requires the clarification of the complex and often blurred relationship among the notions of morphology, prosody and suprasegmental features in SL, a relationship far from established and clear-cut in the literature. The aim of this chapter is to pose some questions about evaluative functions as realised in SL, with special reference to Italian Sign Language (LIS), in order to assess possible interactions among different roles morphology and prosody play in SL, and to show some tendencies in the interaction of evaluative strategies.