ABSTRACT
The very statement of the coordinate deletion rule raises a number of questions of considerable interest. There is, first of all, the notion of identity—what does it mean for deletion target material to be 'identical'; is this phonological or morphological, or referential identity, for instance, or perhaps a combination of these. Second is the question of how we are to interpret the terms in such a statement—what does deletion mean? Thirdly, it is assumed that the meaning of a coordination will be the same, whether it has been subjected to deletion or not. Although clearly coordination will not be the only construction to determine the form and nature of a model of grammar, it is possible, on the basis of the present account to define, roughly, the place of coordinate deletion in the class of generative grammars that does allow deletion.
