Drawing on extensive corpus-based research, this book explores the nature of coordinate constructions in three case studies, covering order in copulative compou

This is the first book on coordinating constructions that adopts a broad cross-linguistic perspective. Coordination has been studied intensively in English and

Addresses the syntactic issues raised by coordinate pairings, with particularly emphasis on their properties in English and Chinese.

Verbal Pseudo-Coordination (as in English ‘go and get’) has been described for a number of individual languages, but this is the first edited volume to emph

This book analyzes the structure of coordination from two perspectives: the symmetrical properties the construction imposes on its conjuncts, and how conjuncts