“Series of Teaching Foreigners Chinese Grammar” is the achievement of “Research and Development of Grammar Syllabus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and Teaching Reference Grammar Series (Multi-volume)”, a major project of National Social Science Fund of China presided over by Professor Qi Huyang, which has been selected as the “2022 Founding Project of National Publication Foundation”. As an important reference book for international Chinese language education, it aims to build and improve the “Grammar System of Chinese Teaching” for foreign students to meet the development needs of the new era. It mainly serves the front-line Chinese teachers, researchers, graduate students and undergraduates majoring in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. This series consists of 39 volumes, including 4 outline series, 26 book series, 8 summary series, and 1 collection of essays.

This book is a fascicle of this series.

Psychological verb is a semantic subclass of verbs and an atypical member of the verb category. This book provides theoretical elaboration on the scope and definition of Chinese psycho-verbs, the demarcation between psycho-verbs and related lexical categories, the aspect, autonomy, and valency of psycho-verbs, the ability of combining psycho-verbs and adverbs of degree, and how psycho-verbs can be used with object, in negative sentences, cause, and the passive sentences, among other basic issues. Taking the above contents as an outline, the book analyses from the syntactic and lexical levels, extends a number of related micro-knowledge points, combines macro and micro, and similar micro-knowledge points, and helps readers clarify the knowledge system and theoretical framework of psycho-verbs by chunking analysis.

Li Jingrong (Editor-in-Chief) has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University (SHNU), and is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the SHNU International College of Chinese Studies. His research mainly focuses on functional linguistics, Chinese grammar and international Chinese language education. Professor Li has presided over and completed 4 national and provincial projects, published 5 books and textbooks, and more than 50 papers in ZHONGGUOYUWEN, Chinese Teaching in the World and other specialized academic journals.

Ye Qiong (Author) has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from SHNU, and is an associate professor at the SHNU Foreign Languages College. Her research mainly focuses on modern grammar theory and application. Professor Ye has published 1 monograph and more than 10 papers in journals such as Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Linguistic Sciences, Chinese Language Learning, and TCSOL Studies.

This book is question-oriented, which introduces the psycho-verbs from the macro-theoretical and micro-analysis aspects through 45 questions, and helps readers clarify the knowledge system and theoretical framework of the psycho-verbs by chunking analysis.

1. Systemic: This book emphasizes on knowledge compilation and theoretical thinking, helping readers to further familiarize themselves with the knowledge system and theoretical framework of psycho-verbs.

2. Extensibility: This book focuses on the correlation between a certain syntactic expression of psycho-verbs and related phenomena.

3. Normality: This book focuses on the normality and stability of teaching grammar, with appropriate descriptions and explanations.

4. Balancing syntax and lexis: Based on the teaching concept of “lexicalisation of grammatical knowledge’, this book focuses on the discrimination of synonyms of psycho-verbs, explores the syntactic-semantic characteristics of the psycho-verbs themselves, and discusses the division of labour in the use of synonyms.

It is recommended for front-line teachers of language education, language teaching researchers, and postgraduate students majoring in international Chinese language education and other language education.