This article shows how the order of events affects their formulation in coordination. In a coordinated
sentence, events are almost always formulated in the same order as they happened, which is not necessarily
the case for the other relations in a multiclause sentence. This is the temporal iconicity principle of coordination, which also leads to the absence of backwards ellipsis and cataphora in coordination. The article deals
with all types of coordination in which iconicity is clearly expressed.
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