赵元任著的《中国话的文法（纪念版英文版）（精）》是一部方法谨严、系统分明的大书，有很多创见胜义。无论从立论的深度说，还是从影响的广泛说，都是最重要的现代汉语语法著作之一。全书分为八章，第一章绪论，第二章句子和第五章造句类型分析句法，其他各章讨论词法。原文即为英文，1968年由美国加利佛尼亚大学出版社出版，1979年曾由吕叔湘先生节译为《汉语口语语法》由我馆出版，1980年丁邦新先生译为全译本的《中国话的文法》，由香港中文大学出版。

LIST OF TABLES
PREFACE
USAGES OF THIS BOOK
1. Characters Used
2. Glossing
3. List of Symbols
4. Abbreviated Characters
5. Abbreviated References to Frequently Cited Works
6. Abbreviations for Frequently Occurring Morphemes and Grammatical Terms
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1. Grammar
1.2. Spoken Chinese
1.3. Phonology
Chapter 2 THE SENTENCE
2.1. General Observations
2.2. Minor Sentences
2.3. Structure of the Full Sentence
2.4. The Grammatical Meaning of Subject and Predicate
2.5. The Logical Predicate
2.6. Subject and Predicate as Question and Answer
2.7. The Full Sentence as Made Up of Minor Sentences
2.8. Types of Subjects
2.9. Types of Predicates
2.10. Full Sentence (S-P) Predicates
2.11. Compound Sentences
2.12. Complex Sentences
2.13. Pivotal Constructions
2.14. Planned and Unplanned Sentences
Chapter 3 WORD AND MORPHEME
3.1. General
3.2. Free and Bound Forms
3.3. Prosodic Aspects
3.4. Substitution and Separation
3.5. Words in Functional Frames
3.6. The Word as a Unit of Meaning
3.7. Word Identity and Morpheme Identity
3.8. Definitions and Tests for the Syntactic Word
3.9. Synoptic Tables of Word-Like Units
Chapter 4 MORPHOLOGICAL TYPES
4.1. General
4.2. Reduplication
4.3. Prefixes
4.4. Suffixes
4.5. Infixes
Chapter 5 SYNTACTICAL TYPES
5.1. Expressions and Constructions
5.2. Coordination
5.3. Subordination
5.4. Verb-Object (V-O) Constructions
5.5. Verbal Expressions in Series
5.6. Verb-Complement Constructions
Chapter 6 COMPOUNDS
6.1. Nature and Classification of Compounds
6.2. Subject-Predicate (S-P) Compounds
6.3. Coordinate Compounds
6.4. Subordinative Compounds
6.5. Verb-Object (V-O) Compounds
6.6. Verb-Complement (V-R) Compounds
6.7. Complex Compounds
Chapter 7 PARTS OF SPEECH SUBSTANTIVES
7.1. General Observations on Parts of Speech
7.2. Nouns
7.3. Proper Names
7.4. Place Words
7.5. Time Words
7.6. D-M Compounds
7.7. N-L Compounds
7.8. Determinatives
7.9. Measures
7.10. Localizers
7.11. Pronouns
7.12. Other Substitutes
Chapter 8 VERBS AND OTHER PARTS OF SPEECH
8.1. Verbs (Including Adjectives)
8.2. Prepositions (K)
8.3. Adverbs (H)
8.4. Conjunctions
8.5. Particles
8.6. Interjections
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
SYNOPSIS OF TONAL SPELLING