ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an extensive discussion of coordination. Section 1.1 starts by considering a number of more general properties of coordinate structures and their constituting parts, after which we continue by investigating some typical syntactic properties of coordinate structures. Section 1.2 first considers in more detail the differences between monosyndetic, polysyndetic and asyndetic coordinate structures. Section 1.3 investigates certain (presumed) properties of their coordinands, including co-occurrence restrictions on coordinands, their island behavior, recursivity of coordination, and the ability of coordinate structures to split, as in Ik heb Peter gisteren gezien en Marie ‘I saw Peter yesterday, and Marie’. Section 1.4 concludes by providing more detailed information about the syntactic behavior, interpretation and use of some individual coordinators.
