ABSTRACT
Both hé and 䎳 gBn, meaning ‘and,’ are commonly used words for connect ing nouns, pronouns, or noun phrases, as shown in 48a-c. The two are interchangeable.
48a Connecting nouns: 㗕Ꮬᄺ⫳ Ѯ⌆䴲⌆ ⬉㛥⬉䆱 lfoshc hé xuésheng Yàzhdu hé Fbizhdu diànnfo hé diànhuà ‘teacher and student’ ‘Asia and Africa’ ‘computer and telephone’
48b Connecting pronouns: Ҫ䎳ཌྷ ៥Ӏ䎳ԴӀ ta gbn ta wimen gbn nhmen ‘he and she’ ‘we and you (pl.)’
48c Connecting noun phrases: 㑶㢅䎳㓓 ྦྷᴢⱘए⫳ྦྷ⥟ⱘᡸ hóng-hua gbn lm-yè xìng Lh de ycshbng hé xìng Wáng de hùshi ‘red flowers and green leaves’ ‘the doctor named Li and the nurse
named Wang’
The adverb г yG ‘also’ appears in compound sentences composed of two or more related verb phrases, descriptive adjectives, or clauses. A compound sentence may consist of one subject with more than one predicate, as in 48d, ‘drinking coffee and drinking tea,’ or with a pair of clauses, each of which has its own subject, as in 48e, ‘book’ and ‘movie.’ The adverb yG appears before the predicate of the second verb phrase, descriptive adjective, or clause, as in both 48d and 48e.
