2018 Volume 2018 Issue 265 Pages 1-18
After a brief review of the studies on Chinese function words in the 1980’s and the 1990’s and of their characteristics, this paper makes a systematic summary of the related research published between 2000 and 2018, pointing out how the research has made considerable progress in breadth and depth as well as in strength and clarity. This paper provides a general introduction of this research, and covers the following topics: it presents new explorations and new methods; breakthroughs in the classification of function words; innovative theories and research methods; the strengthening of applied research on function words; and perspectives for future research of Chinese function words.
