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Central semantic of value coordinate conjunction

Syntactic criterion

  1. Conjunctions which have the type-value coord relate two clauses or syntactic constituents that have the same function.

Test

Given S, S' syntactic constituents, If S and S' related by X have the same syntactic function, X is a coordinate conjunction.

Remark: According to the criterion above, we consider as coordinate conjunctions also the following morphological units (in the following contexts):

  1. X conj Y, with X and Y that have the same syntactic function:

    • Pierre, alias /pos=conjunction & type=coord   Pierrot
    • nominal syntagm versus /pos=conjunction & type=coord   verbal syntagm
    • Il a été jugé coupable puis /pos=conjunction & type=coord   innocent
    • Certains le jugent coupable comme /pos=conjunction & type=coord   innocent
    • Le maire du village, à savoir /pos=conjunction & type=coord   Pierre, est respecté
    • .... c'est-à-dire /pos=conjunction & type=coord   ....
  2. conj X conj Y, with X and Y that have the same syntactic function:

    • Ils ont attendu entre /pos=conjunction   2 et /pos=conjunction   3 heures
    • Il sera jugé soit /pos=conjunction   coupablesoit /pos=conjunction   innocent

Remark: Don't make confusion between the value conjunction of the introducer in the construction 'X conj Y' and the value preposition in 'prep X conj (prep) Y':

  • Certains le jugent coupable comme /pos=conjunction & type=coord   innocent
  • Il se comporte à la fois comme /pos=adposition & type=preposition   un enfant et (comme /pos=adposition & type=preposition  ) un adulte
Test

Given P, P' clauses and P X P', If X P' P fails, and if X is not in complementary distribution with Y, X is a coordinate conjunction.

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