INTRODUCTION PART I THE CLAUSE Chapter 1. The Clause as the Pivot in Chinese Grammar Chapter 2. The Principles of Clause Formation, Inclusion, and Conjoining Chapter 3. Functional Assignment, Nucleus, and Clause Patterns Chapter 4 Subject-Predicate and Predicator-Object Chapter 5 Attribute–Head, Adverbial–Head, and Head–Complement Chapter 6 Clause-Specific Features PART II CLAUSE CONSTITUENTS Chapter 7 Introduction of Constituent Units Chapter 8 Constituent Words Chapter 9 Special Constituent Words Chapter 10 Non-constituent Words Chapter 11 Phrases Chapter 12 Problems in Word Class Identification PART III CLAUSE-CONJOINING Chapter 13 Formation of Complex Sentences Chapter 14 Connectives in Complex Sentences Chapter 15 Inter-clausal Relations and Patterns of Complex Sentences Chapter 16 Diversity of Complex Sentence Patterns Chapter 17 Sentence Groups PART IV METHODOLOGY Chapter 18 Complex Sentences and Related Issues Chapter 19 Methodology: The minor triangle Chapter 20 Methodology: The major triangle Chapter 21 Methodology: The three adequacies in grammatical studies