ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the basic types of conjunctions and their structure building functions. The conjuncts must be of the same syntactic category for coordinatability to obtain. Some patterns of agreement with conjoined noun phrases will be presented. Coordinated singular subjects can trigger singular or plural agreement on the verb depending on their categorial features and syntactic positions. The plurality of verbal agreement suffix is a ‘solution’ of the conflict of diverse person features of subject-noun phrases. In a coordinate object construction, it is the definiteness value of the conjuncts that has to be identical. In a conjoined adverbial structure, the coordination of identically case-marked members is not sensitive to possible differences in person, number, or definiteness. We present data for multiple coordination consisting of more than two members with overt conjunctions and their covert copies.
