Universal #714

Legacy number: 714

 Number  711
 Original  The phrasal categories appear to form a hierarchy: S —VP—AP—PP—NP.
It is claimed that a language will not use one co-ordination strategy for S and NP alone unless the intervening categories also permit the same strategy.
 Standardized  IF one co-ordination strategy is used for NPs, THEN it is also used for PPs.
IF one co-ordination strategy is used for PPs, THEN it is also used for APs.
IF one co-ordination strategy is used for APs, THEN it is also used for VPs.
IF one co-ordination strategy is used for VPs, THEN it is also used for Ss.
 Keywords  co-ordination, complex sentences, complex phrases
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implicational hierarchy
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in J.Payne 1985
 Source  J.Payne 1985: 5-6

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Discussion
Notes
All languages, seemingly without exception, possess strategies which permit various types of co-ordination to occur at the phrasal as well as sentential level, thereby forming complex phrases of various grammatical categories.Payne distinguishes five basic co-ordination types which are realized linguistically both at phrasal and sentential levels: these are CONJUNCTION (p and q), POSTSECTION (p and not q), PRESECTION (not p and q), DISJUNCTION (p or q), and REJECTION (not p and not q; not...p or q).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
All languages, seemingly without exception, possess strategies which permit various types of co-ordination to occur at the phrasal as well as sentential level, thereby forming complex phrases of various grammatical categories.
Payne distinguishes five basic co-ordination types which are realized linguistically both at phrasal and sentential levels: these are CONJUNCTION (p and q), POSTSECTION (p and not q), PRESECTION (not p and q), DISJUNCTION (p or q), and REJECTION (not p and not q; not...p or q).