ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the various problems which one encounters in dealing with coordination, and provides a large body of data which any theory of coordination must be able to handle if it is to be an improvement on earlier accounts. It also provides a unitary theory of coordination which accounts for the syntax of coordinated structures in English, Dutch and German by relating a non-S coordination to a coordination of two or more coordinated sentences themselves not containing a coordination. The chapter argues why the reductionist or deletion approach is more likely to be fruitful than others. As it is is concerned with the syntax of coordination, the chapter also deals with the syntax of rules like Gapping which some linguists would like to relegate to some obscure province of 'style' or 'discourse'. The chapter employs as limited a number of theoretical assumptions as possible, and to whittle down the theoretical constructs to a bare minimum.
