ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the phenomenon of coordination empirically and theoretically. Against the background of the simple SMT-framework worked out in the preceding chapters, an account of coordination is challenged by various special properties of the phenomenon. We consider the Coordination of Likes (CL), the Coordinate Structure Constraint (CSC), and Across-the-Board Extraction (ATB). Coordination also displays striking similarities to adjunction. Yet the observed differences to subordination must enter a proper analysis too. Furthermore, a classification into asymmetric coordination, which can violate ATB and CSC and a symmetric type for which the restrictions must hold is suggested in the literature. The analyses that have been proposed relate coordination to adjunction again. It is therefore necessary to investigate these properties carefully to determine whether they stand in the way of an SMT-based account of coordination.
