Preliminary Recommendations

Comments

Conjunctions link syntactically two or more words or two or more syntagms: phrases, sentences, etc. Two types of conjunction are:

1. Coordinating conjunction: determines a syntactic equivalence between conjuncts, as in

   ``Mary and John''

2. Subordinating conjunction: links two sentences in a dependency relation, as in

   ``I did not answer, since I was...''

A large core of agreement emerges as regards Conjunctions. All the analysed systems agree as to the distinction between coordinating and subordinating Conjunctions. The only difference is the MULTILEX position which splits the two types of Conjunctions into two different categories, coordinators and subordinators: however, no mapping problems arise. The same choice was made by the TEI.

 
• Coordination Type
• Subordination Type