This series invites an array of grammar types useful both as learning devices and as research tools. The freedom to break away from Latin and Greek grammar models, traditionally required, in particular of Indo-European historical languages, is respected and even urged when appropriate. The series seeks forward-looking, theoretically sophisticated methodologies which are at the same time relatively exhaustive or complete grammars of a given language at any period of its existence.

Jian Kang Loar received her BA in English and MA in English and linguistics at Huazhong University in Wuhan, China, where she also became an English lecturer. She came to Boston University on a presidential scholarship, and, subsequently, received her PhD in applied linguistics. Dr. Loar is Associate Professor of Chinese at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. She has been engaged in foreign language teaching her whole life, and she is conversant with foreign language learning and teaching theories and methodology. Her specialty is Chinese grammar and linguistics, primarily in the verbal aspectual system, the sentence information structure, and word order in Chinese. Dr. Loar is the author of several articles that have been published in the and the

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