……复杂的语法。看看已故中国语言学家赵元任的《A Grammar of Spoken Chinese》有多厚（847页）就知道了。他的书写得很详尽，但绝非面面俱到。Li 和 Thompson 的《Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar》（713页）很多学中文的英语母语者都很熟悉。它同样也远没有穷尽。二语学习者在说普通话时所犯的很多错误……
…difficult grammar. Take a look at the page count (847 pages) of the book A Grammar of Spoken Chinese by late Chinese linguist Yuen Ren Chao. His book is thorough, but by no means exhaustive. Li and Thompson's Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar (713 pages) is familiar to many English-speaking students of Chinese. It too is far from exhaustive. Many of the mistakes made in speaking standard Chinese by second-language…
音节（syllables）和语素（morphemes）可不是一回事！在汉语中，所有（或几乎所有）语素都是音节，但并非所有音节都是语素。摘自 Li 和 Thompson 的《Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar》：> 复合词 [即双音节词] 的意义与其组成部分之间的关联程度，可以从非常密切到几乎不存在不等……例如，qūzú ‘to chase’……
Syllables and morphemes are not the same! In Chinese languages, all (or nearly all) morphemes are syllables, but not all syllables are morphemes. From Li and Thompson’s Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar: > The relatedness between the meaning of a compound [i.e. bisyllabic word] and those of its components can vary from close to nonexistent … For example, qūzú ‘to chase’…
……复杂的语法。看看已故中国语言学家赵元任的《A Grammar of Spoken Chinese》有多厚（847页）就知道了。他的书写得很详尽，但绝非面面俱到。Li 和 Thompson 的《Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar》（713页）很多学中文的英语母语者都很熟悉。它同样也远没有穷尽。二语学习者在说普通话时所犯的很多错误……
…difficult grammar. Take a look at the page count (847 pages) of the book A Grammar of Spoken Chinese by late Chinese linguist Yuen Ren Chao. His book is thorough, but by no means exhaustive. Li and Thompson's Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar (713 pages) is familiar to many English-speaking students of Chinese. It too is far from exhaustive. Many of the mistakes made in speaking standard Chinese by second-language…
音节（syllables）和语素（morphemes）可不是一回事！在汉语中，所有（或几乎所有）语素都是音节，但并非所有音节都是语素。摘自 Li 和 Thompson 的《Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar》：> 复合词 [即双音节词] 的意义与其组成部分之间的关联程度，可以从非常密切到几乎不存在不等……例如，qūzú ‘to chase’……
Syllables and morphemes are not the same! In Chinese languages, all (or nearly all) morphemes are syllables, but not all syllables are morphemes. From Li and Thompson’s Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar: > The relatedness between the meaning of a compound [i.e. bisyllabic word] and those of its components can vary from close to nonexistent … For example, qūzú ‘to chase’…