Dr. Shi Chunhong is a researcher in the Center for Studies of Chinese as a Second Language. His research interests lie in Chinese grammar, lexical semantics, language application and theoretical linguistics. He has published more than 50 papers and works including Normalizing Language in Communication (2005), Research on Syntactic Function and Semantic Relation of Chinese Verb-Resultative Construction (2008), Basics of Chinese Language (Grammar)(2011). He has presided over "Studies on the Interaction between the Constructions and Meanings of Sentence Patterns", a project supported by National Social Science Foundation and many other syntactic and lexical projects. He also assumes the chief responsibilities in the "Pilot Course Reform of the Introduction to Linguistics", a teaching reform pilot project of the university.