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Coordination is accomplished differently for different syntactic elements. Clauses are coordinated via one of a moderately small set of coordinating conjunctions, which is interposed between the clauses. Some common members of this set include ‹orm› “and”, ‹aš› “and, but”, ‹îš› “but”, ‹za› “but rather”, ‹hwat› “either… or”, ‹izi› “… or… or both”, ‹hjan› “resulting in, then”, ‹hwi› “for the motivating reason that, because”, ‹śa›, “logically implies that”, ‹ńug› “from the cause that, because”, and ‹pfâ› “so that”.
Coordination of noun phrases, of verb phrases, and of heads of phrases in general, by contrast, is accomplished via simple juxtaposition (asyndeton), with no intervening conjunction. To express semantic relations and nuances among the coordinated elements, particles may be added after the elements.
WALS instructs that, if noun phrases and verb phrases are coordinated similarly, but clauses differently (as in Mîrkšam), “Differentiation” should be used as the classification.
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