Abstract

The paper presents a dependency grammar theory of non-gapping coordination. The approach draws a distinction etween standard cases of coordination - called String Coordination - and gapping. Only small conjuncts are acknowledged. The core of the approach is expressed in terms of three constraints - the Contiguity Requirement (CR), the Parallelism Requirement (PR), and the Restriction on Shared Constituents (RSC) - that restrict which strings may be coordinated and in terms of the material that conjuncts may share. The claims made are valid for both English and German.