Chu-Ren Huang is Chair Professor of Applied Chinese Language Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dingxu Shi is a Chair Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

• 1. Preliminaries Chu-Ren Huang and Dingxu Shi; 2. Syntactic overview Dingxu Shi and Chu-Ren Huang; 3. Lexical word formation Jerome Packard; 4. Verbs and verb phrases Audrey Y. H. Li; 5. Aspectual system Sze-Wing Tang; 6. Negation Haihua Pan, Po Lun Peppina Lee and Chu-Ren Huang; 7. Classifiers Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang; 8. Nouns and nominal phrases Dingxu Shi; 9. Relative constructions Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip; 10. Adjectives and adjective phrases Shi-Zhe Huang, Jing Jin and Dingxu Shi; 11. Comparison Marie-Claude Paris and Dingxu Shi; 12. Adverbs Yung-O Biq and Chu-Ren Huang; 13. Prepositions and preposition phrases Jingxia Lin and Chaofen Sun; 14. Sentence types Weidong Zhan and Xiaojing Bai; 15. Major non-canonical clause types ba and bei Hilary Chappell and Dingxu Shi; 16. Deixis and anaphora Yan Jiang; 17. Information structure Shu-ing Shyu; Appendix. Punctuations Shui Duen Chan.

'This excellent grammar book as a whole provides a comprehensive description of the Chinese language in use and constitutes a new landmark that will be critical for future empirical research on Chinese. It is certainly a useful reference book that will help not only researchers in encouraging descriptive and theoretical linguists to conduct research in creative ways but also language learners and teachers to navigate the complexity of learning and teaching of Chinese.' Guozhen Peng, Journal of Chinese Language and Discourse