USAGES OF THIS BOOK 1.Characters Used 2.Glossing 3.List of Symbols 4.Abbreviated Characters 5.Abbreviated References to Frequently Cited Works 6.Abbreviations for Frequently Occurring Morphemes and Grammatical Terms
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1.Grammar 1.2.Spoken Chinese 1.3.Phonology
Chapter 2 THE SENTENCE 2.1.General Observations 2.2.Minor Sentences 2.3.Structure of the Full Sentence 2.4.The Grammatical Meaning of Subject and Predicate 2.5.The LogicaI Predicate 2.6.Subject and Predicate as Question and Answer 2.7.The Full Sentence as Made Up of Minor Sentences 2.8.Types of Subjects 2.9.Types of Predicates 2.10.Full Sentence (S-P) Predicates 2.11.Compound Sentences 2.12.Complex Sentences 2.13.Pivotal Constructions 2.14.Planned and Unplanned Sentences
Chapter 3 WORD AND MORPHEME 3.1.General 3.2.Free and Bound Forms 3.3.Prosodic Aspects 3.4.Substitution and Separation 3.5.Words in Functional Frames 3.6.The Word as a Unit of Meaning 3.7.Word Identity and Morpheme Identity 3.8.Definitions and Tests for the Syntactic Word 3.9.Synoptic Tables of Word-Like Units