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The work of Gemma Barberà and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr on this special issue, as well as the workshops on Sign Languages and R-impersonals in Paris, February 2015, and Barcelona, June 2015, were funded by the ANR / DFG under grant ANR-11-FRAL-0011, Towards a typology of human impersonal pronouns (Typoimp) ANR/ DFG, awarded to Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, UMR 7023 (CNRS & Paris-8), and Volker Gast, Jena. Their support is gratefully acknowledged. This work has also been partially possible thanks to the SIGN-HUB project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 693349, to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and FEDER Funds (FFI2015-68594-P), and to the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014 SGR 698).

This paper examines backgrounding strategies for human agents in Catalan Sign Language, that is, constructions featuring human agents that are non-referential. We identify and analyze four types of agent-backgrounding strategies: subjectless constructions, indefinite pronouns, the impersonal axis, and general nouns. Extending on previous work, we offer a description and a semantico-pragmatic analysis of each construction. ; This work was partly supported by the Franco-German ANR-DFG project 'Towards a typology of human impersonal pronoun' (ANR-11-FRAL-0011, 2012-15); the SIGN-HUB project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 693349; the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and FEDER Funds (FFI2015-68594-P); and the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2017 SGR 01478).

In this contribution we review and assess the specificities of vitality and revitalization of sign languages in a context of atypical endangerment. The contribution focuses on concrete examples of revitalization measures, both implemented and not yet implemented, based on the Catalan Sign Language (LSC) community context, such as the important role of language documentation, the reasons of the precarious situation in education and a proposal to establish an inclusive educational model, and finally the potential of an open learning resource offering greater access to sign language education. ; This contribution has been possible thanks to the SIGN-HUB project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 693349, to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and FEDER Funds (FFI2015-68594-P), to the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014 SGR 698), to Obra Social La Caixa (LSC Corpus, Institut d'Estudis Catalans), and to AGAUR-Govern de la Generalitat de Catalunya (MOOC funding: Resolució ECO/1247/2014, de 29 de maig).