pseudo-coordination

alternative pseudocoordination

1. uncountablehuman sciencesA 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!".

   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

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   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

   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

   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

   Synonyms: false coordination