“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 sponsored 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 first-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 the book series.

The attributive is one of the basic syntactic components in modern Chinese, and the focus of international Chinese language teaching. On the basis of previous research results, this book combines the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education with the Graded Grammar Syllabus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (elementary and intermediate) and the Classified Grammar Syllabus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (written and oral) developed by Prof. Qi Huyang’s research team to make a comprehensive analysis of attributives, and draw detailed conclusions on three major aspects, including attributives’ related theories, acquisition errors, and teaching methodology. A total of 83 typical problems were sorted out from three major aspects for detailed investigation, and relatively practical conclusions were given out, which all can give direct guidance to the teaching of attributives. This book is designed to provide comprehensive teaching references for Chinese and foreign teachers in the field of international Chinese language education, as well as for current undergraduate, master and doctoral students.

Guo Xiaolin has a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), and is a professor and doctoral supervisor at BLCU. Her research mainly focuses on modern Chinese grammar and grammar teaching. Professor Guo has published several papers in professional journals such as Chinese Teaching in the World, three academic monographs, and many textbooks.

Wu Chunxiang, is a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University, professor, doctoral supervisor and postdoctoral co-supervisor of Shanghai International Studies University, and member of the Teaching Supervisory Committee of Chinese Language and Literature of the Ministry of Education (MOE). His research mainly focuses on grammar, rhetoric, and international Chinese language education. Professor Wu has published more than 90 academic papers in domestic and international academic journals, 3 academic monographs, 9 edited textbooks, and has presided over and completed more than 10 projects.

The grammatical distribution of attributives is different in different languages, which causes different grammatical errors among Chinese learners. In addition, the knowledge of attributives covered in various syllabi is relatively scattered, which is not conducive for teachers to form a systematic and comprehensive understanding. Therefore, it is necessary to discuss systematically the issue of attributives in modern Chinese, which is also the main starting point of writing this book.

The theoretical research on attributives has made a lot of achievements, but there are still a lot of problems in the classification of attributives, the order of multiple attributives, and the concealment of “的”, which have all been answered in this book through specific cases of errors.

This book is recommended to international Chinese language teachers and undergraduate and graduate students of international Chinese language education.