出版者前言
　　中國當代語言學叢書是上海教育出版社的重點出版項目之一。本叢書于1990年春由游汝杰(復旦大學)、張洪明(美國威斯康辛大學麥迪遜校區(qū))和唐發(fā)鐃(本社)策劃，并開始組稿和編輯工作。當初擬定的叢書編輯宗旨如下：中國語言學在20世紀二三十年代開始擺脫傳統(tǒng)小學的樊籬，進入現(xiàn)代語言學的新階段。半個多世紀以來，中國語言學已經(jīng)積累了可觀的研究成果，特別是最近十多年來，許多領(lǐng)域在海內(nèi)外又有了長足的發(fā)展。這套叢書希望總結(jié)中國當代語言學各個分支學科領(lǐng)域的研究成果，特別是反映最新的研究進展，以期收到承前啟后、繼往開來的效果，促進中國語言學的現(xiàn)代化。叢書作者則不限國別地域，不限門戶學派，唯求高明獨到，力爭每一本書都能達到當代該學科的最高水平。
　　1992年6月組稿者將叢書的編輯宗旨、計劃和撰稿人名單告知當時在美國訪問的朱德熙先生，請他為本叢書撰寫總序。朱先生十分贊賞叢書的編輯宗旨，并且認為撰稿者也都是一時之選，欣然答允為序。孰料朱先生病情日益加劇，天不假年，未及提筆就不幸逝世。叢書的總序也因此暫付闕如。
　　從2000年開始，劉丹青(中國社會科學院語言研究所)、張榮(本社)也參加了叢書的編輯工作，編委會工作由游汝杰主持，編輯和出版的方針也有所調(diào)整。本叢書原擬五年內(nèi)出齊，結(jié)果未能如愿，因為有的作者忙于其他工作，未能按計劃完成書稿；有的作者雖然已經(jīng)完成書稿，但是希望有時間反復修改，使之完善，而不想匆匆交稿�？紤]到學術(shù)研究需要艱苦的勞動和大量的時間，限定出版時間，不利保證書稿質(zhì)量。又考慮到學術(shù)研究的特點是學無止境、與時俱進、推陳出新，叢書的出版工作也應該是冊數(shù)開放、不設(shè)時限、常出常新�；�于上述認識，我們將不設(shè)本叢書終止出版的時限，即沒有出完的一天。我們不想追求轟動效應，只要優(yōu)秀書稿不斷出現(xiàn)，我們就不斷出版。
　　本叢書將成為一套長期延續(xù)出版的叢書。希望本叢書的編輯和出版方針，能對學術(shù)著作的出版工作走上健康發(fā)展的道路有所貢獻。
　　上海教育出版社2003年10月PrefacePreface
　　The series Contemporary Chinese Linguistics is one of the important projects of Shanghai Educational Publishing House. The planning of the series and the soliciting of contributions began in the spring of 1990 with the joint efforts of Rujie You (Fudan University), Hongming Zhang (University of Wisconsin at Madison) and Fanao Tang (Shanghai Educational Publishing House), who were brought together to edit the series by such following common grounds.
　　Not until the twenties and thirties of 20th century could Chinese linguistics break down the barriers of the traditional Chinese philology and enter its modern stage. Since then, and especially in the last ten years, rapid progress has been made in various different fields of Chinese linguistics and considerable wealth of research achievements have been accumulated. The series tries to present these achievements so as to stimulate the further research.
　　In June 1992 the editorial committee apprised Prof. Dexi Zhu of the target and the policy of the series with a name list of contributors and invited him to write a preface for the series. Prof. Zhu appreciated the target of the series and the contributors, and promised to write a preface. But his cancer situation turned worse and worse day by day, and did not allow him to write it. So the preface remains unfinished, it is a great pity.
　　Prof. Liu Danqing of Sciences and Mr. Zhang Rong, the editor of the Shanghai Educational Publishing House, joined the editorial committee from the year of 2000, and the policy of editing and publication has been adjusted since then. We planned to publish the serials within 5 years at the beginning, but the plan was not realized because some authors were too busy with some projects else, and did not finish writing according to the schedule, while others who had finished the manuscripts would like to revise them to perfect. Considering academic study needs hard work and a plenty of time, if we set deadline, the quality could not be guaranteed, and it is the feature of academic study that there is not limit to knowledge and the old should be weeded through while the new should be brought forth, we will not restrict the number of series volumes and their dates of publication. We would not like to pursuit sensational effort, and what we want to do is to publish qualified manuscripts whenever we have.
　　This series will be published successively in China. We hope our policy and publication would make contribution to the publication of academic works healthily in China.
　　Shanghai Educational Publishing House