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  <Title>NON-CONSTIT UENT CO()t:{.I)IN ATION: TIII!;OII.Y AND PRAC'I'ICI,;*</Title>
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INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This pN)er is concerned with .sTlmmel.'rical coordina-I;ioil, whore the order of the con.iuncts (the items being coordinated by a eonju n('tioil such as amt el: o'r) ea.n be alt(;red without affecting a(:cel)tahility. (k)o,:dim~tion of this kind is traditionally split iuto co~slituent cool diwttimt, Wllel:e ('.llch (:olljltlict \[()rnls a consl, ii,ueul a(;col:(lillg 1,o 'sl,anda,r(\[' pltrase strtnetm:c gl:i/.ITllll&amp;f,'q, alKl ~wn-couslitucut coo.rdinaliou. (Mnstitueni; and noncoustituent coordination have heen treated as entirely separate phenonmna. (se.e van Oirsouw, 1987 For discussiols), ;rod dill~renl, mech:misnls have heen prol)osecl for ea(:h. I lowcw~r, I)y considering grammat.i(:ality judgements Mona, there seems little .iustifiea.ion \[b,&amp;quot; such a. division. ~lk) illustrate this, considel' the, sentCIICC: null l) John gave Mary some books Ea&lt;;h of the tina.I proper substrings ol&amp;quot; the selttellce (i.e. so'm( booh:.s, Ma'r~/ .some books etc.) cml I)e used as a conjunct e.g.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> 2) a 3ohn g~*v(; Mai, y \[som(. hooks\] ~uid \[soirie pa\[)ers\] null b .Jolut gave \[Miu:y sonic books\] alld \[Peter soln~a impers\] e 3ohli \[gltv(; M:~/.i'y sortie books\] mid \[lent I'eter soliio pal)ers \] Siniila.l:ly, each of t, he inil.i+fl suhstrings ca.n l)e ilsed as a, (;onjllll(:t e.g.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> :~) a \[,Iol,n gave\] a,,d \[l'(:ter le,,l;\] Mary sonic I,ooks *This r(!sr~m'ch was SUlq)Oi'l;((I I~y. t.he U.i'{. El:it!ucc mid Engineering Itesem'ch Council (llcsearch I&amp;quot;cllowrdlll ~ Ig/90/TTl&amp;quot;/288).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> h \[John gave Mt~ry\] ~md \[Peter lent George\] some books c \[John gave Ma.ry seine\] mid \[P(;ter h;nt George many\] books and so can each of the middle substdngs e.g.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> 4) a .lohn \[gave Mary SOllle\] a.lld \[lel|( Peter many\] books 1, a(,im \[&gt;~,,(; mary\] an(l \[/e.t Peter\] .~,,~y l:,ooks e Jol:,, gay,.. \[V&lt;y so,:,e\] ,:,,(l \[fete,' ,.a.y} books Only exa.mples (2a) and (2c) are constituent coordin~tions. Example (3(:) seems slightly mmal;ural, but it is much improved if we replace books by a heavier string such as books about 9arde~ing. '\]'hus, for this example, any substring of the sentence I can tbrm a viable conjuuct.</Paragraph>
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