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Central semantic of value conjunction

Morphosyntactic criterion

  1. A conjunction is an invariant morphological unit which relates two clauses. Coordinate conjunctions can also relate two syntactic constituents which have the same syntactic function.

Test

Given P, P' clauses, If P X P' or P, X P' or P. X P' succeeds, X is a conjunction.

Test

Given P, P' clauses and P X P', If X cannot be moved inside P', X is a conjunction.

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Test

Given X an invariable morphological unit; If X cannot be preceeded by a coordinate cunjunction, X is a cunjunction (and not an adverb).

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