Sentence coordination refers to the process of creating compound sentences through combining two or more independent clauses. Coordination may be ‘syndetic’, which means that the conjuncts are combined using a conjunction such as wa- ‘and’ or fa- ‘and so’, or coordination may be ‘asyndetic’, in which case the sentences are combined without the use of any conjunctions (Cantarino 1974–1975:III, 7).

Syndetic coordination is more common…