"Readers will find abundant rewards in this new addition to the functional literature on Chinese grammar. Collectively, its chapters cover cognitive, typological, diachronic, and usage-based approaches to linguistic structure. Individually, each essay mak

"This collection eloquently speaks for the most recent developments in the functional approaches to the study of Chinese linguistics. By bringing together some of the representative researchers in a comprehensive discussion of Chinese form and function, t

Janet Zhiqun Xing is Professor of Chinese and Linguistics at Western Washington University. Her research interest includes discourse analysis, grammaticalization, semantic change, and pedagogical grammar of Chinese.