Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background for studying flexibility in parts-of-speech systems -- 3 Syntactic observations on flexibility in Classical Chinese -- 4 Cognitive-semantic foundations of flexibility in Classical Chinese -- 5 Pragmatics of flexibility in Classical Chinese: The level of argument structure constructions -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Index