2015 Volume 2015 Issue 262 Pages 31-56
This is a review of Yu-lin Yuan 2015—The Cognitive Mechanism and Descriptive System of Chinese Paratactic Grammar—, which insightfully claims that the way Chinese grammar operates is strongly paratactic. It means that the grammar which describes Chinese grammar must inevitably be a system which describes its paratactic mechanism explicitly. Yu-lin Yuan 2015 calls it “the Chinese paratactic grammar description system with lexicon-construction interaction based on conceptual structure”. The review mainly discusses the following three points based on Yu-lin Yuan 2015: (1) the details of low-level parataxis and high-level parataxis in Chinese grammar; (2) the methodological problems for the description of high-level parataxis; (3) the reason why Chinese grammar can be strongly paratactic.
