If attention is confined, for simplicity, to constructions composed of no more than two immediate constituents, it can be said that subordinating constructions are those in which only one immediate constituent is of the same form class as the whole construction, whereas coordinating constructions are those in which both constituents are of the same form class as the whole construction.
Chinese has various constructions to juxtapose two predicative constituents, such as compounding, coordinate constructions, serial verb constructions, and discourse constructions.
This preliminary work aims to identify coordinating constructions, which are prevalent in the expression of intervention comparisons.
A method is developed for identifying the descriptions of the assignment of treatment arms in clinical trials, using a full sentence parser to locate coordinating constructions and a statistical classifier for labeling positive examples.
This study excluded subordinate constructions in which an adjunct phrase/clause can be moved in a sentence, such as 'i' makaxa' in (2a b), as well as coordinate constructions in which permutation between the first conjunct and the second conjunct is allowed, as in (3a b).
Downtown traffic is often gridlocked, and critics blame Mr. Brown for failing to better coordinate construction projects that have torn up important thoroughfares.
The Galt firm was hired even though the city and the state had jointly established an agency — the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center — and charged it with coordinating construction activity downtown, and preventing troubled contractors from getting work there.
Kurt Kaboth, president of West Side's board of trustees, said shortly after the fire, officials at Central Synagogue helped the church's insurance committee with duties like filing insurance claims and coordinating construction.
In an effort to expedite public works projects, the legislative leaders agreed to set up a new panel that would coordinate construction overseen by dozens of state agencies and public authorities.
In spite of the volume and variety of projects the Greyrock Companies is small, consisting of Jerry and Sandra Effren; Mrs. Effren's sister, Kim Hiteshew, who coordinates construction activity and monitors sales; and Mr. Fisher, who regards himself as "a financial partner who is not hands-on, but only here to give advice".
