Dr. Quan Wan is now Research Fellow at the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Linguistics and Director of the editorial office. His monograph, The Properties and Functions of DE, won the second prize of the 20th Lü Shuxiang Linguistics Prize. His current research focuses on interactional linguistics, usage-based grammar, and Chinese sentence structure.

• Introduction.- Separation or unification.- Presence or absence.- Syntactic distribution.- Functions.- Nominalization.- Self-designation and transferred-designation.- Reference-point construction.- The composition of the N-de V structure.- The problematic nature of endocentric constructions.- De in the generative tradition.- State-of-affairs Sentences.- On Sentences like Ta De Laoshi Dang-de Hao.- Possessives as Patients.- Chinese Grammar Beyond Indo-European Perspectives - The Final Word.

Dr. Quan Wan is now Research Fellow at the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Linguistics and Director of the editorial office. His monograph, The Properties and Functions of DE, won the second prize of the 20th Lü Shuxiang Linguistics Prize. His current research focuses on interactional linguistics, usage-based grammar, and Chinese sentence structure.

• Introduction.- Separation or unification.- Presence or absence.- Syntactic distribution.- Functions.- Nominalization.- Self-designation and transferred-designation.- Reference-point construction.- The composition of the N-de V structure.- The problematic nature of endocentric constructions.- De in the generative tradition.- State-of-affairs Sentences.- On Sentences like Ta De Laoshi Dang-de Hao.- Possessives as Patients.- Chinese Grammar Beyond Indo-European Perspectives - The Final Word.

Dr. Quan Wan is now Research Fellow at the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Linguistics and Director of the editorial office. His monograph, The Properties and Functions of DE, won the second prize of the 20th Lü Shuxiang Linguistics Prize. His current research focuses on interactional linguistics, usage-based grammar, and Chinese sentence structure.

• Introduction.- Separation or unification.- Presence or absence.- Syntactic distribution.- Functions.- Nominalization.- Self-designation and transferred-designation.- Reference-point construction.- The composition of the N-de V structure.- The problematic nature of endocentric constructions.- De in the generative tradition.- State-of-affairs Sentences.- On Sentences like Ta De Laoshi Dang-de Hao.- Possessives as Patients.- Chinese Grammar Beyond Indo-European Perspectives - The Final Word.