动词短语省略句自上个世纪七十年代以来，一直都是生成语法学中研究的热点问题。

VP ellipsis in Chinese came to be discussed in the latest thirty years and many researches have studied on this topic.

《词诠》以西方语法学思想为指导，从语源学角度对虚词作了细致分类。

Ci Quan took the Western grammar thought as the instruction, has made the careful classification from the etymology Angle to the function word.

从汉语语法学史上审视张斌先生的虚词研究，张斌先生的虚词研究更多地体现出一种理论和方法上的启示意义。

Zhang Bins research on form words shows the theoretic and methodological enlightenment upon review from the point of view of the academic history of Mandarin grammar.