Coordination

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Coordination is the linking of two syntactic elements that play the same semantic role.

Subtypes

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