The Ancient Chinese Language Criticism

The first lecture: Introduction
The literary style (classical style) and the vernacular Chinese (spoken Chinese) are two different languages.
The second lecture: the organization and the order of words of a sentence
a. structure of word elements, b. structure with double objects, c. positions of the preposition, d. positions of adjunct
The third lecture: the compound structure
The fourth lecture: the thematic structure
The fifth lecture: complex designative words (the double-words form)
The sixth lecture: contrast, focal point and shifting operation
a. the inverted subjective sentence, b. the interrogative sentence, c. the negative sentence, d. the passive sentence
The seventh lecture: relations of repeated referring, zero form and the abbreviation
The eighth lecture: structure of the noun group and its grammatical function
The ninth lecture: the change of the property of words - - interactions between the forming of words and the framing of sentence
a. when the applying and the applied are the same word, b. enacting verbs, c. signifying verbs
The tenth lecture: functional category: when, who and what
The 11th lecture: some characteristics of the phonetics and the syntax of structural auxiliary and ending words