Syntactic function NP{N1&N2}
additive complex nominal expression N1+N2 with the meaning "N1 and N2, N1 in addition to N2"
[THE BRACKET NEEDS TO BE TRANSFERRED TO THE FIELD "CONSTRUCTION TYPE"]
It is by no means trivial to decide when a meaning is additive, as the case of 國家 shows: etymologically, there is no doubt that we have a conjunction of "state" plus "major clans", but the idiomatic meaning of the phrase does NOT seem to retain this additive etymological nuance. Needless to say, the structural description in brackets [N1&N2] logically belongs into the field of "construction types", and the problem is that construction types can be etymological only, and they can be of current direct semantic relevance.
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