Title: The book can only fool non-native speakers of Chinese
Product review: As a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan, I found this book contains too much seemingly complicated rules. However, a little Sprachgefuehl(feeling for the tongue) led me to the conclusion that the rules and categories are hocus pocus, i.e., they do NOT reflect the actual way we speak the language. This is a serious problem, becuase linguistics is descriptive in nature. If the rules proposed in the book do not adequately reflect reality, then they are useless. I doubt if the example senteces were really secured from native speakers.Non-native speakers might be dumbfounded by the apparent complexity of the book and think it is too scholarly. In fact, howver, they are only fooled into thinkning so because they are dealing with a subject they are not familiar with--Mandarin Chinese, in this case.
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