Co and subordination in German and other languages Linguistic research has focussed on issues related to coordination and subordination for a long time. Whereas in the 1970s and 1980s the main concern was the analysis of canonical clause structure the interest shifted towards non canonical phenomena such as weil verb second clauses dependent verb second clauses independent and continuative verb final clauses etc. The contributions to this issue build on findings of these studies at the same time systematically adding a broad discussion of typological diachronic and acquisition related aspects. A further central concern of the studies is to make precise theoretical concepts of modelling the semantics of relevant structural configurations such as verb second