A cyclic, phase-based approach to coordination structures
Luise Schwarzer, Philipp Weisser
September 2024 

A number of recent papers (Neeleman et al. 2023, Ke et al. 2023, Schwarzer & Weisser 2024) have discussed conflicting evidence in English and German as to whether coordination structures can be analyzed as uniformly binary branching and universally hierarchical. Against the background of this discussion, the paper at hand sets out to (a) evaluate the different technical options that we have at this point and (b) propose a restrictive, uniform account of English and German that rests on the assumption that coordination structures are binary branching. Processes seemingly indicating flat structures can and should be reanalyzed as referencing the absence of intermediate cycles rather than the absence of syntactic hierarchy.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/008617 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Silke Fischer, Doreen Georgi, Fabian Heck, Johannes Hein, Anke Himmelreich, Andrew Murphy & Philipp Weisser (eds.): Strict Cycling - A Festschrift for Gereon Müller. LAB 97
keywords:	coordination, cyclicity, germanic, syntax
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