Related Term(s):

• co(-)ordinating conjunction
• co(-)ordination
• co(-)ordinator
• denominative marker
• link₁
• target
• theory of mental spaces
• trigger₁

Synonym(s):

• connector

Source(s):

QUIRK etal. 1985921 (linker)
CRYSTAL 200397
WALES 198989
HARTMANN & STORK 197249 (connector)
FINCH 200091, 148 (logical connective)
RICHARDS etal. 199277 (= conjunction)
DIJK 198039, 103
FAUCONNIER 19854-5
NASH 196842, 130 (link-word)
LEVINSON 1983288 (also "sentential connective")
HJELMSLEV 1961[trans.]72 (PH)
SPERBER & WILSON 198837
LYONS 1977143 (also "conjoining connective")
DIJK 197767, 208
ELL706-707
GRIMES 1975216, 328-329

• QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.
• CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.
• WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 
• HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.
• FINCH, Geoffrey. (2000) Linguistic Terms and Concepts. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT,  J. & WEBER,  H.  (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.
• DIJK, Teun A. van. (1980) Macrostructures: An Interdisciplinary Study of Global Structures in Discourse, Interaction, and Cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• FAUCONNIER, Gilles. (1985) Mental Spaces: Aspects of Meaning Construction in Natural Language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 
• NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 
• LEVINSON, Stephen C. (1983) Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
• HJELMSLEV, Louis. (1961 [trans.]) Prolegomena to a Theory of Language. Trans. by Francis J. Whitfield. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 
• SPERBER, Dan & WILSON, Deirdre. (1988) Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press.
• LYONS, John. (1977) Semantics. Vols. 1 & 2. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
• DIJK, Teun A. van. (1977) Text and Context. Explorations in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse. London : Longman.
• The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.
• GRIMES, Joseph E. (1975) The Thread of Discourse. The Hague: Mouton.

Domain:

Pragmatics

Logic