Abstract
Taking ＂multi-complex-compound＂, as Professor Chou Fa-Kao called it in the volume of A Historical Grammar of Ancient Chinese Part I: Syntax, as a departure point, this paper discusses how the complex-compound sentences in the Pre-Qin Chinese discourses are constructed. Two high-level constructions, ＂topic-comment with logic relations＂ and ＂combination of multi-logic relations＂, are recognized here. The former comprises three sub-types. The latter is open to all conventionalized complex-compound sub-types, three of which are exemplified in the discussion. This paper shows that analyzing discourse out of constructions will lead towards better understanding of the logic reasoning and composition of the Pre-Qin discourse.