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Central semantics of value conjunction

The conjunction constitutes an invariant PoS which relates syntactically two (or more) words of a sentence or two (or more) sentences.
Conjunctions belong to the particular class of textual connectives.

Formal criteria:

Conjunctions can be simple and compound and consituted by multiword expressions, which can be encoded as an unique entry in the lexicon:

pos=conj
D e s c r i p t i o nE x a m p l e s
simplee/conj   ma/conj   quindi/conj   anche/conj  
compoundneanche/conj   nondimeno/conj   oppure/conj   anche/conj  
more than 1 w.dal momento che/conj   per il fatto che/conj   dato che/conj