PART ONE MEDIEVAL CHINESE GRAMMAR 3
Editor's Introduction 3
The Language of the Chinese “Secret History of the Mongols 元朝秘史” （1959） 5
1 The text 5
2 Method of analysis 8
3 Contextualization 12
4 Graphic analysis 20
5 Script and language 24
6 Grammar 37
7 Lexis 112
8 Phonology and transcription 116
9 Appendices 128
A A phonological（prosodic）analysis of the new Chinese syllable（Modern Pekingese） 128
B Specimen analysis and translation 135
C Statistical tables 137
D Lexical translation forms collocation of Mongolian names 159
E Suggested emendations 160
F Chinese syllabary and table of characters 162
PART TWO MODERN CHINESE GRAMMAR 175
Editor's Introduction 175
2 Temporal Categories in the Modern Chinese Verb （withJ. O. Ellis, 1951） 177
3 Grammatical Categories in Modern Chinese（1956） 209
4 Some Lexicogrammatical Features of the Dialects of the Pearl River Delta 249
PART THR EE CHINESE PHONOLOGY 273
Editor's Introduction 273
5 The Origin and Early Development of Chinese Phonological Theory （1981） 275
6 A Systemic Interpretation of Peking Syllables（1992） 294
PART FOUR GRAMMAR AND DISCOURSE 323
Editor's Introduction 323
7 Grammatical Metaphor in English and Chinese（1984） 325
8 Analysis of Scientific Texts in English and Chinese （1993） 334
9 On the Grammatical Foundations of Discourse （2001） 346
Appendix 365
Bibliography 368
Index 379