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Serbo-Croatian coordinative conjunctions at the syntax-semantics interface Abstract Five major Serbo-Croatian conjunctions are presented, for which

it is argued that they differ in semantic as well as morphological complexity. The paper provides a compositional analysis of the morphological make-up of the arguably morphologically complex conjunctions, and establishes a mapping between the two scales of their complexity, on the background of a more general syntactic and semantic behavior of each of the primitive components. Based on the grammatical analysis of the conjunctions, a number of general theoretical questions are discussed, such as which syntactic categories may enter certain types of conjunction, what is the relation between different types of coordination, and more general ones like what the consequences of the proposed analysis are in the domain of cognitive computations of logical operations such as disjunction.

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