The semantic and syntactic literature on coordination is extensive. A concise review of the various syntactic approaches to coordination in the pre-generative period is given in Bakker (1968) and Dik (1968), and of the earlier generative approaches in Van Oirsouw (1987). Zamparelli (2011) provides a review of various semantic approaches to coordination, in particular the distinction between the distributive and collective reading of coordinated phrases (and plural definite noun phrases). More recent reviews of formal syntactic approaches to the internal structure of coordination can be found in Grootveld (1992/1994), Johannessen (1998: §3), Bredschneijder (1999), Progovac (2003), Zhang (2010), and De Vries (2017).

There seems to be little consensus on even the most basic questions about coordination. The position taken in our discussion is that coordination can target non-clausal constituents (VPs, NPs, APs, PPs, etc.), which was vigorously defended by Dik (1968). This position has been rejected by several researchers in the last decades: Van Oirsouw (1987), Goodall (1987: §2), Cremers (1993: §2), and to some extent Wilder (1997) have all argued for the more traditional view that such structures are derived from coordination of clauses and some form of forward conjunction reduction; cf. Zhang (2010: §3.5) for further references. Coordination has also received many formal syntactic analyses. The conventional analyses evolved from completely “flat” structures in Chomsky (1957:36) to “layered” (binary branching) structures in Thiersch (1993a), Munn (1993), Kayne (1994: §6), Johannessen (1998), and Zhang (2010). More innovative analyses include various forms of parallel and three-dimensional structures; cf. Goodall (1987), Grootveld (1992/1994), and G. de Vries (1992). The wide range of available syntactic analyses may reflect progress in formal linguistics, but it may also be due in part to the fact that coordination is special because it goes beyond “ordinary” sentence syntax.

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