Zhengcun Dong is Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor and “Distinguished Scholar” of Renmin University of China. His research focuses on grammaticalization and semantic evolution, construction and construction change, Chinese full expression, grammar teaching as a foreign language. Among his numerous publications are Grammaticalization and Grammar Research (VIII) (co-editor, 2017), Research on Quantitative Adverbs for Chinese Teaching (2016), Diachronic Investigation of Chinese Full Expression Syntactic System (2012).