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The union of conjunction and disjunction: The case of and/or
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 2 (2017): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 37:1–9 ; 2473-8689 (2017)
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Effable Slash: An Interactive Coordinator in English and its Behavior Slash Properties
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Woo, Brent. - : The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2016
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This paper presents an analysis of the synchronic distribution and syntactic behavior of the English expression slash, as in These are my cats slash best friends. First, slash is a new type of coordinator: in nominal cases it productively coordinates two bare nominals resulting in an intersective reading. Second, it is semantically similar but syntactically distinct from similar combining mechanisms: intersective and, Latin cum, N-N compounding, and orthographic slash . Third, slash has a unique subcategorization requirement of only coordinating bare nouns (bartender slash dentist), adjectives, and verb phrases, but not clauses or full noun phrases (*the lawyer slash the doctor). By providing a range of examples showing productive use, I argue that slash is incorporated in the grammar of English, and that it is a unique example of innovation in the 'very closed' functional category of coordinators.
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/38041
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