This paper firstly makes an inquiry into the editions of Xiaoxiao Ci and holds that it may not be only one edition inscribed in Changsha, which can be seen nowadays, and there must have been other editions at that time; secondly, it tries to reveal the meaningful aspects of the word “Xiao” (smile); thirdly, it endeavors to interpret its simple style.

The verb categories in English SVOC structure and those in Chinese "Jianyu" structures have no correspondence, but they have undergone the similar process of grammaticalization, that is, they are derived either from words with the meaning of causation, or from grammatical metaphor.

Through cross-linguistic syntactic priming experimental paradigm, this study was devoted to examining the influence of L2 levels and verb types upon L1-L2 cross-linguistic syntactic priming concerning Chinese English learners to explore the representation of lexical and syntactic information and its development in bilinguals.