ABSTRACT
This section deals primarily with the coordination of clauses and sentences. For the purposes of this chapter is the union of two or more sentences without conjunctions will be treated as asyndetic coordination, and with conjunctions as syndetic coordination, whether punctuation is involved or not. Asyndetic coordination is neither new nor rare, having been used in CA whenever the vividness or immediacy of the narrative required it: structurally, however, it amounted to the elision of a conjunction. It is important to note the other roles of asyndesis: indefinite relative clauses verbal circumstantial clauses and apodosis clauses all rely on a delicate system of zero markers (namely the absence of introductory particles) to indicate the subordination of the respective clauses. In CA all sentences were in principle formally connected by conjunctions, these also serving as the equivalent of punctuation, but MWA has superimposed a borrowed Western punctuation system and the two systems are often integrated to a greater or lesser degree.
