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Coordination is a phenomenon of language that conjoins two or more terms or phrases using a coordinating conjunction. Although coordination has been explored extensively in the linguistics literature, the rules and constraints that govern its structure are still largely elusive and widely debated amongst linguists. This paper details a new approach to the study of two-termed coordination phrases through a computational corpus-based analysis, utilizing the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) as the main data source, as well as the Penn Treebank (PTB). Our analysis was two-fold; we conducted (1) a syntactic analysis of the phrasal categories that can be coordinated, including both like and unlike category combinations, and (2) a semantic analysis of coordination by employing two representations of words—WordNet and word embeddings. The results show that the two conjuncts within coordination phrases display different properties based on their position, supporting an antisymmetric view of the structure of coordination. This research provides new data and perspectives through the use of statistical techniques that can help shape future theories and models of coordination. |
