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pseudo-coordination en · NOUN

Etymology

From pseudo- + coordination.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) 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!".
   • 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 […]. 2012, Christopher Gabriel, Kurt Braunmüller, editors, Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 265, →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. 2016, Clara Pinto, Fernanda Pratas, Sandra Pereira, editors, Coordination and Subordination: Form and Meaning—Selected Papers from CSI Lisbon 2014, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 228, →ISBN:
   • In Chapter 6, we investigate more closely the matrix verbs involved in pseudo-coordination (TMA-copying with motion/posture verbs). 2005, Anna-Lena Wiklund, The Syntax of Tenselessness: On Copying Constructions in Swedish, Umeå University, Department of Philosophy and Linguistics, →ISBN, page 13, →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. 2014, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Laurel B. Preston, editors, Measuring Grammatical Complexity, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 209, →ISBN:

Forms

Relateds

hendiadys

Synonyms

false coordination