coordinationeg

Coordinationeg is a label used in some linguistic resources to denote an exemplar sentence that illustrates a coordination construction. It is not a widely recognized theoretical term, but it appears in learning materials, corpora, and annotation schemes as a shorthand for "coordination example." The term aims to help researchers and students quickly identify sentences that demonstrate coordination, defined as the syntactic joining of two or more elements (conjuncts) by coordinating conjunctions such as and, or, but.

In usage, coordinationeg can mark a range of structures, including simple coordinate structures like "Alice and Bob left," coordinate noun phrases such as "apples and oranges," and coordinate verb phrases such as "sang loudly and danced." It can also cover more complex forms that involve shared material, ellipsis, or right-node raising, where the same element is understood to apply to multiple conjuncts.

In annotation practice, coordinationeg tags are often used as metadata or inline annotations to facilitate parsing experiments, corpus querying, and pedagogical exercises. They support analysis of how conjuncts agree in tense, number, or mood, how parallelism is maintained, and how punctuation affects interpretation.

Limitations: coordinationeg is not a standard linguistic category, and its meaning may vary across corpora or textbooks. Users should consult the documentation of a given resource to understand the exact criteria used for marking a sentence as a coordinationeg.

See also: coordination (linguistics), conjunction, parallelism.