The flat relation plays a similar role to the compound one, and its exact usage also varies on a language-by-language basis.
However, it is most frequently used to connect the various elements of proper names to one another, including titles and honorifics.
The flat relation can also be used to link individual elements of numbers to one another.
The syntactic relation flat is mainly used with two deep syntactic features:
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