Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: What linguists have always wanted to know about Chinese... -- 2. SVO forever! -- 3. Prepositions as adpositions, not V/P hybrids -- 4. Postpositions: Double trouble -- 5. Adjectives: Another neglected category - which turns out to be two -- 6. The syntax and semantics of the sentence periphery (part I): What the topic is (not) about -- 7. The syntax and semantics of the sentence periphery (part II): Why particles are not particular -- 8. Chinese from a typological point of view: Long live disharmony! -- References -- Subject index