Coordination of verbal dependents in Old French: Coordination as a specified juxtaposition or apposition

Scholars have proposed many different models to describe coordination of verbal dependents. We give a brief presentation of the most common ways to deal with this construction from a general point of view. Then, we evaluate the adequacy of the models using data from Old French. In this particular language, coordination is a more elaborated form of juxtaposition and apposition, which differs only at the semantic level. For this reason, the coordinating conjunction has to be considered as a dependent of the following conjunct.