The Cognitive Perspective of Yulin Yuan on Modern Chinese Grammar

Abstract

This paper is mainly a review of Yulin Yuan’s book Cognition-Based Studies on Chinese Grammar which, as one of the book series of Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics, was published by Routledge in 2017. On the one hand, Yuan’s cognitive studies of and his Yuanian insight into Chinese grammar are of vital importance to those students and researchers who specialise or are interested in the Chinese language, especially modern Chinese grammar. On the other hand, his research may probably promote the development of cognitive linguistics on the whole with regard to linguistic typology.