Comparative study of argument structures in causative constructions of English and Chinese Comparative study of adversative conjunctions in Chinese and Japanese Comparative study on semantic rhetorical devices between English and Chinese Comparative study of projection between English and Chinese Comparative study of typical binary-marker simile construction in Chinese and English Contrastive study of metaphorical sentences in English and Chinese Cognitive study of emotive intensifiers in English and Chinese Cognitive study of loanword categorization in English and Chinese Comparative study of "embedded projection" between English and Chinese Contrastive study of negation and its translation between English and Chinese