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Preliminary Recommendations

 

Application to Greek

Under this category, we have included only pure conjunctions, i.e. elements that are used to introduce main or secondary sentences, and have avoided the inclusion of prepositions and adverbs that function as conjunctions as well. These have been treated in the respective categories. Like prepositions, we can distinguish between two kinds of conjunctions in Greek:

  1. A finite set of simple conjunctions: e.g. `kai', `alla', `myn', `oute'; and
  2. A productive set of conjunctions formed periphrastically, with some word/phrase combined by a conjunction: e.g. `dhedhomenou oti', `an kai', etc. The tagging of these multiword forms must be performed by a special mechanism.