任学良同志编著的《汉语比较语法》(中国社会科学出版社,1981。以下简称《比较语法》)是当年出版的几本同类书籍中颇为引人注目的一本。这不仅因为它篇幅最大,全书达四十二万字,而且因为它试图建立一个“以讲汉语为主的粗枝大叶的体系”,并得出了汉英语法“主要是同,而不是异”的结论。 Comrade Ren Xueliang’s “Chinese Comparative Grammar” (China Social Sciences Publishing House, 1981, hereinafter referred to as “Comparative Grammar”) is quite a striking one in several similar books published in that year. This is not only because it has the largest space of 420,000 words, but also because it tries to establish a “system of rhetoric mainly based on Chinese” and concludes that the Chinese-English grammar is “mainly the same, not the different,” in conclusion.