Yuzhi Shi is Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He obtained an MA from the University of California, San Diego, in 1995 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, in 1999. His major publications include Motivations and Mechanisms of Grammaticalization in Chinese (Peking University Press, 2006), Chinese Grammar (The Commercial Press in Peking, 2010) and The Historical Morpho-Syntax of Chinese, which won the Prize of China Excellent Publications in 2016.

• Conventions used in the examples; Abbreviations and symbols; 1. Some preliminaries; 2. Copular word and construction; 3. Focus and wh-word; 4. Serial verb construction; 5. Disyllabification; 6. Resultative construction; 7. Information structure; 8. Passive construction; 9. Disposal construction; 10. Verb copying and reduplication; 11. Comparative construction; 12. Ditransitive construction; Aspect and tense; 14. Negotiation; 15. Boundedness of predicate; 16. Classifier; 17. Demonstratives from classifiers; 18. Distal demonstratives from phonological derivation; 19. Pronouns, plurals and diminutives; 20. Structural particles; 21. Word order and relative clause; 22. Conclusions.

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