Stanford Conference on the History of Chinese Syntax
[译]：斯坦福汉语句法历史学术会议
William S-Y. Wang 王士元

Abstract 摘要
I am honored by the opportunity to say a few words on this happy occasion, as we open the Stanford Conference on the History of Chinese Syntax. The two central features of syntax, any syntax, are the ordering of elements, and the grouping of these elements into hierarchies. These two features are so fundamental to complex systems that they are found again and again in almost every aspect of human behavior, from artistic expressions like music or sculpture, to the writing of computer programs, to the building of bridges. H. Simon, for example, has argued cogently that hierarchical organization is in fact the basic architecture which underlies all complexity...