COORDINATION
Coordination
In linguistics, coordination is a frequently occurring complex syntactic structure that links together two or more elements, known as conjuncts or conjoins. The presence of coordination is often signaled by the appearance of a coordinator, e.g. and, or, but . The totality of coordinator and conjuncts forming an instance of coordination is called a coordinate structure. The unique properties of coordinate structures have motivated theoretical syntax to draw a broad distinction between coordination and subordination. Coordination is one of the most studied fields in theoretical syntax, but despite decades of ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Coordination (linguistics)
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coordination
Noun
- the act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect.
- the resulting state of working together; cooperation; synchronization
- the ability to coordinate one's senses and physical movements in order to act skillfully.
- I'm terrible at sports -- I have no coordination.
- the state of being equal in rank or power.
- an equal joining together two or more phrases or clauses, for example, using and, or, or but.
- The reaction of one or more ligands with a metal ion to form a coordination compound
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