Investigating the functionality of coordination : a syntactic contrastive study

Abstract EN

The present research attempts to explore a syntactic analysis of coordination in English and Arabic languages.

It tries to examine the usage and the meaning of coordinators in both languages from a syntactic point of view.

This study focuses on showing the form and the function of coordination and subordination conjunctions in both English and Arabic languages.

Conjunctions are items that combine (parts) clauses with each other.

They are words which are used to associate two or more expressions simultaneously.

Coordination refers to the linking of words by means of coordinating conjunctions.

Subordination is used where the units being linked are not equivalent.