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The Structure of Coordination: Evidence from Croatian Church Slavonic

There are, at the moment, two major approaches to the structure of coordination. The first treats the coordinator as the head, the second conjunct as the complement and the first conjunct as the specifier of that head.According to the second approach the coordinator and the second conjunct are adjoined to the first conjunct, which is the head of the whole coordination. The author concludes that the adjunction approach is more appropriate for analysis of the Croatian Church Slavonic conjunction i than the first approach since the lexical status of the CCS word i is less problematic in the adjunction approach. This approach lets us treat the conjunction and the particle as instances of the same lexeme.At the moment he has no empirical argument as regards whether i should be treated as a head or as an adjunct (adverb), as suggested by Moltmann (1992). The second solution has one theoretical advantage, since in that case we don't need categories without category features.

syntax, coordination, Croatian Church Slavonic language

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