What is an additive relation?

An additive relation is an interpropositional relation in which the propositions are judged either to be closely related or built one on another.

• and

  Example:

  Peter didn’t show up; and how about you?

• further
• moreover
• also

Halliday and Hasan 1976 246 believe that the words further, moreover, and also additionally indicate emphasis.

• What is an emphatic additive relation?

• What is an interpropositional relation?

Thompson and Longacre 1985:200

Halliday and Hasan 1976:234–236

van Dijk 1981:167

Context for this page:

• Concept module: additive relation
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): A
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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