MULTEXT-East Morphosyntactic Specifications, Version 4

3.1.9. English Conjunction

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Table 35. English Specification for Conjunction
P	Attribute (en)	Value (en)	Code (en)
0	CATEGORY	Conjunction	C
1	Type	coordinating	c
		subordinating	s
3	Coord_Type	initial	i
		non-initial	n

3.1.9.1. Notes

Subordinating conjunctions are often identical to prepositions (before, after, since, ...).

3.1.9.2. MSD Index

This index gives the complete list of morphosyntactic descriptions (MSDs) and their features. In the table below, the first column gives the MSD, the second its expansion into a feature-structure, the third gives the number of entries in the lexicon (71,784 entries), and the fourth gives some examples as word-form/lemma. The list was extracted form the English MULTEXT-East lexicon.

Table 36. MSDs (4)
MSD (en)	Features (en)	Lexical entries	Examples of usage
Cc	Conjunction Type=coordinating	1	as
Cc-i	Conjunction Type=coordinating Coord_Type=initial	2	neither, either
Cc-n	Conjunction Type=coordinating Coord_Type=non-initial	5	than, or, nor, but, and
Cs	Conjunction Type=subordinating	52	yet, whilst, while, whether, where, wherever, whereby, whereas

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Date: 2010-05-12
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