This paper explores Stylistic-Register Grammar (Yuti Grammar) from various components of the grammar such as morphology, syntax, phonology and semantics. It was discovered that stylistic-register differences are manifested systematically not only through morphological contrasts such as bound/free (morphemes), ancient/modern (words), coordination/subordination (compounds), analyticity/syntheticity (syntactic words), but also in syntactic contrasts such as high/low (tree structural positions), far/near (movements), in prosodic feature contrasts such as high/low (tones), weak/strong (syllables), monosyllabic/disyllabic (words), and in semantic contrasts such as concrete/abstract (meaning), big/small (sizes), individual/collective, and so on. It is then argued that Register Grammar occurs in all components of the grammar, not merely exists in syntax as previously assumed. Thus, Stylistic-register Grammar is better considered as an independent component in the grammatical system of human languages.

While there is much progress in corpus linguistics and its applications, as is especially the case with English, Chinese lags behind in this area. There is little in the way of integrating corpus based research and language teaching in the field of Chinese applied linguistics. This paper focuses on the spoken language corpus and its applications, with exemplifications from discourse prosody, lexico-grammar, and discourse pragmatics. It will be shown that there is much to be gained by applying spoken corpora in both research and teaching pedagogy.

The present article intends to answer the question mentioned above, basically by means of 3 requirements added to the 2 principles that Wei Jian-gong (魏建功) has proposed. In conclusion, it is proved that if we do not take the “Gui 30 zimu li” (《歸三十字母例》) into consideration, as Wei did before, we can solve the problem quite reasonably. The author’s presumption that the Qie-yun was dedicated to the crown prince is effective to the solution.

This paper is focused on terms of address in in some parts of San Yan Er Pai, from the perspective of ‘power relationship’, ‘friendly relationship’ and ‘emotional relationship’, based on a theoretical framework of politeness. The functions of various address terms were investigated comprehensively and theoretically. Meanwhile, in accordance with the characteristics of address terms in ancient Chinese, this paper also points out some problems of the hypothesis that proposed by the previous works. The author believes that the modifications made by this paper will be able to contribute to a further development of the existing theories.

This paper counts the usage cases of the word “guaidao” in modern Chinese, analyses these cases from a semantic perspective, and compares the word with other modal adverbs which have a similar usage and related form. Finally, we explore its process of grammaticalization and explain why this word can denote “awakening”. It is concluded that the word-formation of “guaidao” is affixation, and the Chinese character “dao” is a suffix which is usually used behind verbs. The reason why this word can denote “awakening” is related to its syntactic position and context.

Realis refers to a grammatical mood which indicates that a particular situation is perceived to exist as objective reality; in contrast, irrealis is a subjective mood which refers to a non-existing situation conceptualized through the speaker’s imaginary supposition. Cross-linguistic studies have shown that in some linguistic forms, the modal distinction between realis and irrealis is represented by a different morphological form. This article studies various grammatical conditions and pragmatic restraints on the realization of the irrealis mood in modern Mandarin Chinese. In conclusion, I claim that the pre-noun position for the subject or object attributive modifier functions as one of the syntactic devices that encode the realis/irrealis mood, and that the syntactic position for the object attributive modifier plays an important role in determining the grammatical legitimacy of the irrealis mood of the object attributive modifier.