pseudo-coordination
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pseudo- + coordination.
Noun
[edit]pseudo-coordination (uncountable)
- (linguistics) A linguistic construction in which two terms (often inflected verbs) are joined by a coordinator (e.g., and), as in the sentence "Try and win the competition!". Synonym: false coordination
- 2005, Anna-Lena Wiklund, The Syntax of Tenselessness: On Copying Constructions in Swedish[1], Umeå University, Department of Philosophy and Linguistics, →ISBN, page 13, →ISBN:
- In Chapter 6, we investigate more closely the matrix verbs involved in pseudo-coordination (TMA-copying with motion/posture verbs).
- 2012, Christopher Gabriel, Kurt Braunmüller, editors, Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies[2], John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 265, →ISBN:
- As mentioned earlier, pseudo-coordination allows for asymmetric extraction out of the second conjunct, in apparent violation of the coordinate structure constraint and the "Across-the-Board" [ATB] constraint […] .
- 2014, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Laurel B. Preston, editors, Measuring Grammatical Complexity[3], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 209, →ISBN:
- So one possibility to be considered is that pseudocoordination is at root standard coordination, but with pragmatic implicatures that extend the meaning of coordination to purpose.
- 2016, Clara Pinto, Fernanda Pratas, Sandra Pereira, editors, Coordination and Subordination: Form and Meaning—Selected Papers from CSI Lisbon 2014[4], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 228, →ISBN:
- The type discussed most in this paper is verbal pseudocoordination, which is found in several unrelated and geographically distant language groups, although it is very rare in verb-final (SOV) languages.