Symmetric Coordination

By Birgit Wesche

Hitherto, the three symmetric coordination types Phrasal Coordination, Right Node Raising, and Gapping have been mostly treated in isolation. This book presents a successful attempt at developing a uniform approach - couched in a transformational framework, but also applicable to other grammatical approaches.

But the account not only provides a common frame for coordination. In effect, it does away with the strict distinction between simplex and coordinate structures. The proposed approach - based on a natural extension to the classical X-scheme - is equally valid for both simplex and coordinate structures, and, thus, it presents a significant contribution to grammars of phrasal structures in general.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3484303328
• ISBN13: 9783484303324
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary