Nature of Research on Early Modern Chinese Grammar:Imitation or Reference——A Case Study of A New Grammar of the Chinese National Language by Li Jinxi

Imitation is a pretty common comment on research on early modern Chinese grammar and typical works of it.In fact,it is not objective.Whether it imitated western grammar or not is a matter of the nature of research on early modern Chinese grammar,so it is necessary to make it clear completely.This article takes A New Grammar of the Chinese National Language as an example to prove that this work referred to western grammars instead of imitating them,which can be shown through the author's expressions,scholars' related expositions,and especially the main contents in it.Furthermore,the nature of whole research on the early modern Chinese grammar is reference instead of imitation.