What is a coordinate clause?

Definition
	A coordinate clause is a clause belonging to a series of two or more clauses which
	are not syntactically dependent one on another, and are joined by means of a coordinating conjunction a connective, or parataxis.

Examples (English)
	I will go home and he will go to work. John likes hamburgers, but Mary prefers hot dogs. We might go to Seattle, or we might go to California.

Generic
	A coordinate clause is a kind of
	What is a clause?

Sources
	Crystal 1980 92
	Hartmann and Stork 1972 54
	Foley, W. and Van Valin 1984 243
	Payne, J. 1985 3
	Mish 1991 288
	Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985 46

Context for this page:

Concept module: coordinate clause
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