Yoruba coordinators

Yoruba conjoins noun phrases with the free word àtí before the second coordinand. Repeated before each coordinand, àtí A àtí B, it gives the emphatic 'both … and', the construction Haspelmath cites from Rowlands.

Main definitions

• Yoruba.Coordination.ati: the conjunctive coordinator.
• Yoruba.Coordination.atiAti: the emphatic conjunction.

References

• [Has07]
• [Row69]

def Yoruba.Coordination.ati : Coordinator

àtí 'and', repeated for 'both … and'.

Equations

• Yoruba.Coordination.ati = { morph := Morphology.Morph.free "àtí", gloss := "and", role := Coordinator.Role.conjunctive }

def Yoruba.Coordination.atiAti : Coordinator.Correlative

àtí … àtí 'both … and'.

Equations

• Yoruba.Coordination.atiAti = { first := [Yoruba.Coordination.ati.morph], second := [Yoruba.Coordination.ati.morph], single := Yoruba.Coordination.ati }