Table of contents : Title Preface Contents 1. Introduction 2. Summary 3. The distributional approach to coordinative constructions 4. General properties of coordinations 5. The treatment of coordination in transformational generative grammar 6. The background of the transformational approach to coordination 7. The relation of coordination to constituent structure 8. On the notion 'grammatical function' 9. Outline-sketch of a functional granlmar 10. The description of coordinations in a functional grammar 11. Structural ambiguity in coordinations 12. On the semantics of coordination Bibliography Index of subjects Index of names