Shen Jiaxuan is Professor of Linguistics at Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His main research interests include contrastive studies between Chinese and English and grammatical theories.

• Volume 1: 1. Introduction: Between Discarding and Recovering 2. Breaking with Earlier Assumptions 3. The Problems 4. The Verbs-as-Nouns Framework in Chinese 5. Realizational Relations and Constitutive Relations 6. The Asymmetry Between Nouns and Verbs 7. The Referentiality of Predicates Volume 2: 1. The problematic status of complements and adverbials 2. Chinese, Tongan, and Latin 3. Shì ‘be’ and yǒu ‘have/there be’ 4. The status and functions of the monosyllabic-disyllabic opposition 5. Markedness reversal and the inclusion pattern 6. Concluding remarks: Destruction and construction in grammatical studies

Shen Jiaxuan is Professor of Linguistics at Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His main research interests include contrastive studies between Chinese and English and grammatical theories.

• Volume 1: 1. Introduction: Between Discarding and Recovering 2. Breaking with Earlier Assumptions 3. The Problems 4. The Verbs-as-Nouns Framework in Chinese 5. Realizational Relations and Constitutive Relations 6. The Asymmetry Between Nouns and Verbs 7. The Referentiality of Predicates Volume 2: 1. The problematic status of complements and adverbials 2. Chinese, Tongan, and Latin 3. Shì ‘be’ and yǒu ‘have/there be’ 4. The status and functions of the monosyllabic-disyllabic opposition 5. Markedness reversal and the inclusion pattern 6. Concluding remarks: Destruction and construction in grammatical studies