Comparison between co-ordination and other semantic relations in Setswana

Abstract

A preliminary description of co-ordination is presented and it is pointed out that further investigation is necessary. Thereafter co-ordination as a semantic relation is compared with other types of semantic relations. It was found that co-ordination overlaps with intra-sentential conjunctive binding. With regard to a comparison between the range or scope of semantic relations in sentences and texts, it was found that co-ordination occupies an intermediate position: It does not only appear in the internal structure of sentences but also intra-sententially where it overlaps with intra- sentential conjunctive binding. Because of these properties co-ordination has a wider range of accidence than other semantic relations. Anaphoric semantic connectivity is the most mobile because it is not bound by structure.