This book studies the word order and rules of Chinese, including the organization principle of Chinese syntactic structures, the elements and positions of various types of sentence elements, the four resultant sentence structures in Chinese, the topic-theme structure in Chinese, and the Chinese information focal structure, etc.<br/>
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The author uses the functional principle and conceptual principle in Chinese as the major theoretical support, discusses the word order in Chinese and the differences between Chinese and Western languages through analyzing words, sentence elements, sentence patterns, constructions and other aspects. He refutes the idea that the word order in Chinese is irregular and proves it has a high regularity. <br/>
