Table Of ContentCoordination Relations in the
Languages of Europe and
Beyond
Caterina Mauri
Mouton de Gruyter
Coordination Relations in the Languages of Europe and Beyond
≥
Empirical Approaches
to Language Typology
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Editors
Georg Bossong
Bernard Comrie
Yaron Matras
Mouton de Gruyter
Berlin · New York
Coordination Relations
in the Languages
of Europe and Beyond
by
Caterina Mauri
Mouton de Gruyter
Berlin · New York
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Acknowledgements
Thisbookisarevisedversionofmydoctoraldissertation(UniversityofPavia
2007).Itisnoteasytomentionallthepeoplewhoplayedaroleinstructuring
theideasandthepagesofthiswork.
Firstofall,IwouldliketothankpeopleattheDipartimentodiLinguistica
Teorica e Applicata of the University of Pavia for forming such an inspiring
working environment and for giving me the opportunity to experiment what
itreallymeanstodolinguistics,inItalyandabroad.Iamespeciallygrateful
tothosewhofollowedthedevelopmentofthisresearchatitsvariousstages.
IwouldliketoexpressmydeepestgratitudetoSoniaCristofaro,whohad
a crucial impact in my growing up as a linguist, since the day I decided to
leave Italo Calvino for typology. She oversaw this work from the very be-
ginningandinallitsphases,spendingalotoftimeandenergiesincarefully
reading drafts of this book and providing precious advice. I am and will al-
waysbeindebtedtoherforallthesupportandinspiration,linguisticallyand
otherwise.IwouldlikehertoknowthatIneverfeltalonealongtheway.
ThankyoutoAnnaGiacaloneandPaoloRamat,whobelievedinme,sup-
portedme,involvedmeinexcitingresearchprojects.Theyalwaysfoundthe
time to listen to my ideas, sharing with me their extensive and deep knowl-
edgeoflinguistics.Ilearnedalotfromthem,andthishasbeenarealprivilege
forme.IsincerelythankMichelePrandi,forhispreciousphilosophicalper-
spective, Silvia Luraghi, for the valuable bibliographical hints and for her
ability to bring problems into focus, and Gianguido Manzelli, for having in-
troducedmetothefascinatinghistoryofSlaviclanguages.AndreaSansòhas
beenanessentialsourceofemotionalsupportandintellectualexchange,and
Iamsincerelygratefultohimforhisfriendshipandtrust.
I discussed parts of this research, at different stages and in different cir-
cumstances, with Cecilia Andorno, Michela Cennamo, Pierluigi Cuzzolin,
Tullio De Mauro, Maurizio Gnerre, John Hawkins, Paolo Poccetti, Davide
Ricca,EdoardoLombardiVallauri,BernhardWälchli,BjörnWiemer.Iwould
like to thank them because their words have been, more or less consciously,
veryusefulhintsonthedirection(s)tofollow.
PartofmyPh.DthesishasbeencarriedoutinGermany,attheUniversity
ofErfurtandattheFreieUniversitätofBerlin.Thetimespenttherehasbeen
incrediblyimportantformypersonalgrowth,bothfromaprofessionalanda
vi Acknowledgements
human point of view. Besides learning a beautiful language, I met a number
of extremely valuable people. I would like to thank Christian Lehmann for
the opportunity to work at the Sprachwissenschaft Institut of the University
of Erfurt and for the time he took to discuss my unripe ideas, helping me to
findadirectionalongwhichtheycouldgrow.Ialsowouldliketoexpressmy
gratitude to Yoko Nishina and especially Amani Bohoussou. He has taught
me a lot of interesting things about NànáfwEˆ, has widely discussed with me
theideaoftheirrealityofalternativesandhasultimatelymademywinterin
Erfurtmuchhappierwithhisgeneroussmile.
I have thoroughly enjoyed and benefited from my stay in Berlin. There I
had extremely interesting talks with Norbert Dittmar, Kristina Kotcheva and
MarcelaAdamíková,whoseinformationonSlaviclanguageshavebeencru-
cial to figure out the fuzzy meaning of a. I am especially indebted to Ewald
Lang, who got interested in my research and participated with his curiosity
andhispersonallibrary,asmallpartofwhichisnowwithmeinMilan.
InAugust2004,IspentonemonthworkingattheMaxPlanckInstitutefür
evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig, where I had the opportunity to meet
and talk with brilliant linguists, whose method and thought have deeply in-
spiredmywork.TalkingwithMartinHaspelmathhasbeenacrucialmoment
in the elaboration of my dissertation and I would like to express my deep
gratitude to him for his wise as well as truly inspiring advice. His work on
coordinating constructions was the point of departure of my research and a
constantreferencemodelduringitsdevelopment.
Furthermore,IreceivedvaluablecommentsfromtheaudiencesattheUni-
versityofBergamo,theMaxPlanckInstitutefürevolutionäreAnthropologie
atLeipzig,theColloquiaattheFreieUniversität,theHumboldtUniversitätof
BerlinandtheUniversityofErfurt,theLeipzigStudents’ConferenceinLin-
guistics, the Workshop on Semantic Maps during the ALT 7 Conference in
Paris,theMORBO/CONF meetingattheUniversityofBolognaandthePh.D.
studentsconferenceattheSITLECDepartmentofForlì.
IwouldalsoliketothankYaronMatrasforthecommentsheprovidedon
themanuscriptasaneditoroftheEALTseries,UrsulaKleinhenzandWolf-
gangKonwitschny,fortheirconstanthelpattheveryfinalstageofthispath.
Aspecialthankgoestoallthepeoplewhokindlyfilledoutthequestionnaire,
providing precious information about their native languages. In particular, I
wouldliketothankAgnieszkaLatos,NajlaRebej,MananaTopadze,Amani
Bohoussou,YokoNishinaandKristinaKotchevafordiscussingdatawithme.
Acknowledgements vii
There are also a number of people I would like to thank, because they
shared time, ideas and laughters with me during these years of research:
Valentina Albino, Giorgio Arcodia, Irene Cordovani, Federica Da Milano,
MartinaFanari,FrancescaFrontini,AmiraLakhdar,CristinaMariotti,France-
scaMazzariello,NicolettaPuddu,NajlaRebej,andLorenzoSpreafico.Aspe-
cial thank goes to Chiara Mauri and Maicol Formentelli, who corrected and
revisedmyEnglish.
I am extremely grateful to all the non-linguists who patiently listened to
my reasoning about coordination and gave me their precious feedback and
help. I know it might have been a sort of sacrifice sometimes and I really
appreciate it. Thanks to those with whom I share everything but linguistics:
it’sthereIfindtheenergiestodivebackintoresearch.
Thelastthankgoestomyfamily,whoalwaysencouragedmeandtowhom
thisbookisdedicated.
Ètralevostreparolechehoiniziatoacercare...diimparareaparlare.
Contents
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Listoffigures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Listoftables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Listofabbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
1 Theoreticalfoundations:thenotionofcoordination 1
1.1 Introductiontothisresearch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1.2 Afunctional-typologicalapproachtocoordination . 6
1.1.3 Outlineofthework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.2 Thelanguagedata:afocusonEurope . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.2.1 TheEuropeansampleandtheComparisonsample . 14
1.2.1.1 TheEuropeansample . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.2.1.2 TheComparisonsample . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.2.2 Thequestionnaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.2.3 Two levels of analysis and the twofold organization
ofthestudy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.3 Thenotionofcoordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.3.1 Traditionaldefinitionsofcoordination . . . . . . . . 23
1.3.2 Alternativeapproachestothedefinitionof
coordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1.3.3 Thefunctional‘parallelisms’ofcoordination . . . . 31
1.3.3.1 Semanticparallelism . . . . . . . . . . . 32
1.3.3.2 Conceptualparallelism . . . . . . . . . . 35
1.3.3.3 Pragmaticparallelism . . . . . . . . . . . 37
1.3.4 Coordinationrelation:across-linguisticallyvalid
definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
1.3.5 Typesofcoordinationrelations . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
2 Parametersofanalysis 49
2.1 Objectofanalysisandmethodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2.1.1 Delimitingthescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2.1.2 Methodsforcross-linguisticcomparison:selecting
theparameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
