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

Niina Ning Zhang is Associate Professor and Director within the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Chung-Cheng University. She previously co-edited Ellipsis in Conjunction (2000) and has written many journal articles on syntactic theory and practice.

Acknowledgement; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I. No Special Syntactic Configuration: 2. The complementation structure of coordinate complexes; Part II. No Special Syntactic Category: 3. The categorial makeup of coordinate complexes; Part III. No Special Syntactic Constraint: 4. The Conjunct Constraint and the morphological properties of coordinators; 5. The Element Constraint and the semantic relatedness of conjuncts; 6. Three puzzles solved by rejecting the CSC; 7. Relativized parallelism in syntactic complexes; Part IV. No Special Syntactic Operation: 8. The derivation of coordinate clauses with identity adjectives; 9. Deriving across-the-board constructions without forking movement; 10. Conclusions; References.