Jukunoid Benue-Congo languages junction [Lat. iungere ‘to connect’]

In L.Tesnière’s dependency grammar, class of co-ordinating conjunctions (and, or, but). Junctives are ‘empty words’ (Fr. mots vides) with a purely syntactic function, which connect ‘full words’ (Fr. mots pleins) and/or their nodes with the same syntactic function ( junction).