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pseudo-coordination

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + coordination.

  1. derived from coōrdinātiōnem
  2. derived from coordination
  3. compounded as pseudo-coordination — “pseudo- + coordination”

Definitions

  1. A linguistic construction in which two terms (often inflected verbs) are joined by a…

    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!".

    • In Chapter 6, we investigate more closely the matrix verbs involved in pseudo-coordination (TMA-copying with motion/posture verbs).
    • 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 […].
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudo-coordination. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA