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| | Dissertation abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Once these two ideas are brought together, the structure of conjoined phrases becomes similar to that of other phrases, and at the same time its crucial properties are accounted for. |
 | | In essence, the structure of conjoined phrases involves duplicating an inflectional node: the higher part of it is headed by a lexically unspecified category (the conjunction) which inherits its properties from the lower part, which is a regular node (tense, aspect, agreement, etc.) The specifier of each of these nodes host a conjunct. |
 | | In chapter 2, I define conjunction by extension: first, I show that it shares properties with propositional projections, in particular the ability to accept adverbs; then I show that in certain languages it is systematically related to the inflectional paradigm, for example in Switch-Reference languages and in Southern Quechua. |
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