Case in coordinated conjuncts

Abstract

Several works have focused on case in coordination, such as Munn (1994), Johannessen (1994, 1997, 1998), Quinn (2005), and Parrot (2009, 2010). The literature shows that it is not the case that all conjuncts have the same grammatical features, not even with respect to case. Coordination is not symmetrical; it is very often true that conjuncts have different case (this is called unbalanced coordination in Johannessen 1994, 1997, 1998). We also find coordination in which both conjuncts have the same case, but that this case is unexpected given the position of the coordinated phrase in the clause (called extraordinary balanced coordination by Johannessen, op.cit.). The ScanDiaSyn survey has tested four sentences in Swedish (Sweden and Finland). [...]