Grammatical constructions

Grammatical constructions and categories: A skeleton scheme of the grammatical structure of the Chinese language

Classes of expressions:

negatable expressions 
non-negatable expressions

Types of constructions:

endocentric constructions
attribute-head constructions (a-h), marked and unmarked
with NP as head
with VP as head
head- complement constructions (h-c), marked and unmarked
with VP as head
coordinative constructions h-h
with NP as heads
appositive, marked and unmarked
alternative, marked and unmarked
additive, marked and unmarked
with VP as heads
alternative, marked and  unmarked
additive, marked and unmarked

predications (a sub-category of endocentric constructions)
with nominal predicates, marked and unmarked
interrogative predications
non-interrogative predications
with non-nominal predicates
interrogative predications
non-interrogative predications
with predications as predicates

exocentric constructions
coverb phrases as attributes to VP
postverb phrases as complements to VP
subordinating conjunction and a following clause

suffixes
word suffixes
Noun suffixes
Verb suffixes
Phrase suffixes
Clause suffixes
Sentence suffixes

This scheme has the advantage that expressions with identical functions can be treated together, and in some cases listed, for easy reference.