Compared with the influential phrase-oriented framework,the Theory of Clausal Pivot proposed a decade ago is stronger in both descriptive and explanatory adequacy.

The third section is devoted to three latest attempts to integrate the Chinese tradition and the Western tradition, namely, the phrase-based theory, the sinogram-based theory, and discourse studies.

A Report of the Research on the Basic Phrases of Academy English;

Pan Wenguo\'s standpoint of "Character-oriented" belittles modern linguistics theories and rational thoughts and he is also resistant to change on the traditional linguistics,even shows special preference to the theory of violation on character\'s rules and academic misconceptions.