On Chinese Transitory Grammar of the 20th Century

Different type of languages restrain the automatic development of different study methods，and Chinese tradition-al grammar is to make a critical interpretation of the meanings of content words and an investigation of the functions of the form words.The study of Chinese grammar of the20th century is“Chinese Transitory Grammar”made after introducing Western theories，which according to the methods of introduced Western grammatical theories can be divided into four stages:draft，change，development and reconstruction.Ma Jianzhong established“grammatical theory on two levels”in 1898.“The Philosophy of Grammar”by Otto Jesperson is neo-traditional grammar of Europe，and his theory of three ranks is the origin of the dependency relation grammar.There are two main lines in Chinese Transitory Grammar:one is Ma Jianzhong tradition based on universal rational grammar—the introduction of Jesperson’s Philosophy of Grammar—Lu Shuxiang’s traditional and structural grammar，the other is Zhao Yuanren tradtion based on structuralism—the absorption of generative linguistic method—Zhu Dexi’s structural and semantic grammar.The essential universality of human lan-guages is semanticity，and the corner stone of converging Oriental and Occidental grammars should be semantic grammar.