5.3　Polysemous And in N,S and H

5.3　Polysemous And in N,S and H

Chapter 4 has explained various semantic meanings of and.This section will reveal its distribution in three disciplines.Table 5.14 presents the comparison of and in N,S and H.

Table 5.14　Comparison of and in the three disciplines

续表:

It is seen from Table 5.14 that the four semantic types of and are dense in H(167.7 per 100,000 words)and S(168.5 per 100,000 words)but very sparse in N(32.7 per 100,000 words).Additive and is the most favored type while adversative and is the least in all the three disciplines.