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Dictionary of language and linguistics 232p q p qt t tt f ff t ff f fIn everyday language and is realized as a conjunction by also, as well as, besides, inaddition, not only…but also, both…and. In contrast with everyday use, however, thelogical conjunction and does not distinguish between and and but nor temporally betweenthe propositions (cf. The horse stumbled and fell down in contrast to The horse fell downand stumbled, that is, p q is equally logical as q p). Nor do both parts of theproposition necessarily have to be semantically related, that is, be in a communicativelyrelevant relation. The term ‘conjunction’ refers both to the function of the two-placesentence operator and as well as to the resulting proposition defined by it. With the aid ofset theory, conjunction can be characterized semantically as the intersection set of bothmodel sets that make the connected propositions true ( set).4 Synonym for logical connective ( also formal logic)conjunctiveco-ordinationconjunctive adverbAdverb which occurs as an independent constituent before the finite verb and which hasa co-ordinating function, e.g. so in It was raining, so we stayed at home. Conjunctiveadverbs can have other semantic and syntactic functions besides co-ordination, such asparticles or adverbials.