11. Coordination in three Western Iranian languages

1.Introduction

1.1 Vafsi, Persian and Gilaki

1.2 The sets of coordinate conjunctions

1.3 Historical origins and derivations

1.4 Stress and intonation

1.5 Background grammatical information: Vafsi

2. Conjunctive coordination

2.1 Main points

2.2 Noun phrase conjunctive coordinators

2.3 Verb phrases and clauses

2.4 Subordinator ke as coordinator

3. Adversative coordinative conjunctions

3.1 Main points

3.2 The adversative coordinators

3.3 Initial occurrence in intonational unit

3.4 Adversative conjunctions deleted

3.5 blke : Contrastive after negative

4. Disjunctive coordinators

4.1 Phrase level

4.2 VP and clause level

4.3 The coordinator yá-ìnke

5. Bisyndetic coordinative conjunctions

5.1 Main points

5.2 The bisyndetic coordinators

6. hæm ‘also’ and other uses

6.1 The uses of hæm

6.2 Further discussion of hæm

7. Conclusion

Published online: 29 July 2004
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.58.16sti