OR (fwd)

[S. Moran]

Scott Drellishak has an MA thesis, "A Survey of Coordination Strategies in the 
World's Languages", and some other coordination papers that may be useful:

http://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/matrix/sfd/


-Steven

Steven Moran | Department of Linguistics | University of Washington


On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Jan Rijkhoff wrote:

> Dear Frans,
> 
> Caterina Mauri (http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/pagina.php?id=19) 
> wrote a PhD that you may find useful.  She writes on her home page that she 
> "carried out a typological research on the cross-linguistic coding of the 
> three
> coordination relations of combination ('and'), contrast ('but') and 
> alternative ('or'), based on a 74 language sample".
> 
> Best, Jan
> 
> 
> Jan Rijkhoff
> Associate professor, Dept. of Linguistics, Aarhus University
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> 
> Frans Plank <frans.plank at UNI-KONSTANZ.DE> writes:
> Dear typologists,
> 
> can someone tell me whether there is typological-diachronic work on the kinds 
> and origins of disjunctive coordinators (such as English or) that would go 
> beyond the indications in this article, well worth reading, but admittedly no
> full-fledged typological study?
> 
> 
> Morpurgo Davies, Anna. 1975. Negation and disjunction in Anatolian -- and 
> elsewhere. Anatolian Studies 25. 157-168.
> http://www.jstor.org/stable/3642580?seq=1
> 
> Thanks.
> Frans
>