Abstract
The purpose of this article was to examine the possibilities of the Persian language to express disjunctive constructions. In case of using coordinators, Persian language uses three types of it, which are: simple, compound and discrete . Our aim in the present study was to identify Persian disjunctive coordinators, determine their position, and investigate the sensitivity of disjunctive coordinators to the category of coordinands. The data consist of 44 sentences which were collected from native speakers or Google search engine. The findings of the research indicate that: the majority of disjunctive coordinators of Persian language are not sensitive to the category of coordinands and can be used with all kinds of phrases and clauses. The most common of which is "and" which can be used as disjuctive, contrastive, causative and disjunctive co-ordinations at the same time. In this language, in addition to "or", interrogative words, adverbs related to doubt and uncertainty, as well as verb sources can also be used as disjunctive coordinators, most of which are native coordinators of the Persian language and are not borrowed from other languages. In terms of position, the disjunctive coordinators of the Persian are used in the following ways: [co- A][B] & [A][B-co].
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