Comparative Concept: exclusive disjunctive coordination (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
exclusive disjunctive coordination (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
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| Alias(se) | exclusive disjunctive coordination |
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a type of disjunctive coordination in which the alternatives expressed cannot be combined. Example: You can have the soup or the salad is an instance of exclusive disjunctive coordination in the situation where you cannot have both. Exclusive disjunctive coordination can be an instance of exhaustive list coordination. (Section 15.2.1)