Coordination

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

  • "The term coordination refers to syntactic constructions in which two or more units of the same type are combined into a larger unit and still have the same semantic relations with other surrounding elements." (Haspelmath 2007:1)

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