THE SEMANTICS OF COORDINATION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Problem and its background -- 2. The specific object of investigation -- I. Towards a theory of coordination : Some basic assumptions -- 1. Raw material and definition of coordination -- 2. Characteristics of coordination -- 2.1. Preliminary considerations -- 2.2. Sentence vs. utterance, grammar vs. communication -- 2.3. Coordination as integration -- 2.4. Basic assumptions -- 2.5. Heuristic and method of enquiry -- 3. Aspects of conjoining -- 3.1. Homogeneousness of conjuncts -- 3.2. Parallelization effect of coordination -- 3.3. Further surface effects of coordination -- 3.4. The role of connectors in conjoining -- 3.5. Common Integrator (CI) of the conjunct-meanings -- 3.6. Syndesis vs. asyndesis. Symmetry vs. asymmetry -- 3.7. ,Sentential conjunction' vs. ,Phrasal conjunction' -- 4. Where are the limits to the scope of a linguistic description of the semantics of coordination? -- 5. The structure of the proposed theory of the semantics of coordination -- II. Relations between conjunct-meanings -- 1. Distinctness of conjunct-meanings -- 2. Semantic inclusion of conjunct-meanings -- 3. Incompatibility between conjunct-meanings -- III. Outline of the semantics of coordinate conjoining -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Logical characterization of coordinate conjoinings -- 1.1. Inventory of examples -- 1.2. Logical characterization of semantic relations between conjunct-sentences -- 1.3. Logical characterization of the connector-meanings -- 1.4. Logical characterization of coordinate conjoinings -- 2. Linguistic interpretation of the logical characterization of coordinate conjoinings -- 2.1. Logical and linguistic properties of conjoinings -- 2.2. Contextual conditions for connectors.

2.3. Components of connector-meanings -- 2.4. Contradiction vs. incomprehensibility -- 2.5. Tautology vs. Redundancy -- 2.6. Contingent conjoinings -- 2.7. Summary -- 2.8. Aspects of connector universals -- 3. Some properties of the connectors but and for -- 3.1. but -- 3.2. for -- 4. Survery of connector-meanings -- 4.0. Preliminaries -- 4.1. Notation -- 4.2. Connector-meanings -- 4.3. Interrelations of connector-meanings: a case study on DE MORGAN'S laws -- IV. Coordinate structures with modal verbs -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The raw material -- 1.1. German modal verbs -- 1.2. The representation of the conjuncts -- 1.3. Meaning postulates -- 1.4. Interpretation of the modal predicates -- 1.5. Semantic networks -- 2. Coordinate conjoinings with modal verbs -- 2.1. Notation -- 2.2. Conjoinings with ,und' -- 2.3. Common Integrator in conjoinings with modal verbs -- 2.4. Conjoinings with aber [but] -- 2.5. Conjoinings with denn [for] -- 2.6. Conjoinings with oder [or] -- 2.7. Conjoinings with entweder - oder [either - or] -- 2.8. Conjoinings with nicht - sondern [not - but] -- 2.9. nicht - sondern vs. nicht - aber: ,correction' vs. ,contrast' -- V. Discussing and extending the notion ,Common Integrator' -- 1. ,Common Integrator' in comparison to related concepts of A. WIERZBICKA, J. D. MCCAWLEY, and R. LAKOFF -- 1.1. ,Common Denominator' in WIERZBICKA (1967/1972) and (1980) -- 1.2. ,General Formula' and , General proposition' in MCCAWLEY (1973) and (1981) -- 1.3. ,Common Topic' in R. LAKOFF (1971) -- 2. Common Integrator in word formation -- 2.1. Coordinate compounds in German -- 2.2. Coordinate compounds in Chinese -- 3. Common Integrator in other connections -- VI. Some applications -- 1. Exemplification as a stylistic device -- 2. Reconstruction of ideological background -- 3. Demagogy -- 4. Jewish Joke -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Name Index.