Coordination
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Coordination is the linking of two syntactic elements that play the same semantic role.
Subtypes
- conjunction (= conjunctive coordination) ('X and Y')
- disjunction (= disjunctive coordination) ('X or Y')
- adversative coordination ('X but Y')
Origin
The term coordination seems to have been coined only in the 19th century. In the earlier literature, the term copulative was often used for coordination.
References
- Haspelmath, Martin. 2007. Coordination. In: Shopen, Timothy (ed.) Language typology and syntactic description, vol. II. Cambridge: Cambridge university Press, 1-51.
Other languages
German Koordination
