COORD_PHRASAL Phrasal coordination

Biber O64 Xiao H82

Definition

Coordination of phrases (NPs, APs, PPs) rather than clauses.

Detection Rules

Phrasal coordination: noun coordinated with noun.

semgrex{pos:/NN.*/}=n1 >conj {pos:/NN.*/}=n2

Requires: pos, dep

pybiber

pybiber checks CC (coordinating conjunction) flanked by matching UPOS categories. Anchors on CC (position 1) since the conjunction is the feature instance. Four patterns: noun+noun, verb+verb, adj+adj, adv+adv.

p1 
cql[upos="NOUN"] [pos="CC"] [upos="NOUN"]
p2 
cql[upos="VERB"] [pos="CC"] [upos="VERB"]
p3 
cql[upos="ADJ"] [pos="CC"] [upos="ADJ"]
p4 
cql[upos="ADV"] [pos="CC"] [upos="ADV"]
combine: p1 | p2 | p3 | p4

Requires: pos, upos

Normalization

Per words

Examples

kings and queens

old and wise

Sources

  • biber_1988 — Biber, Douglas (1988) : Variation across Speech and Writing
  • pybiber — Brown, David West & Reinhart, Alex (2026) : pybiber — Python package for linguistic feature extraction and Multi-Dimensional Analysis
  • xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes

Notes

Biber distinguished phrasal (D3) from non-phrasal (D1) coordination. MFTE’s CC counts all coordinating conjunctions without distinguishing. Needs syntactic parsing to split.

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