Conjunction

Conjunctions link two similar words or phrases together into a single phrase. English conjunctions include and, or, "but." In Gaelic the conjunctions include:

• 'ach, "but"
• agus or 's or 'is, "and"
• "no" (pronounced [n^jo], "or"

Chunnaic	mi	fhin	agus	thu	fhèin	Iain.
see.pst	1sg	self	and	2sg	self	Iain
'I and you saw Iain.'

See Also

• Conjunction (definition)
• Complementizer (definition)

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References

• Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.