21世纪认知语言学将受到重视并得到更大的发展。作为认知语言学理论的一个重要组成部分,语法化研究在中国有着很长的历史。本文对清代袁仁林《虚字说》对语法的研究成果作了扼要的介绍,并评述了它在语法化理论上所作出的贡献。 Cognitive linguistics in the 21st century will receive more attention and be further developed. As an important part of cognitive linguistics theory, the study of grammaticalization has a long history in China. This article gives a brief introduction of the research results of grammar in Yuan Renlin ’s “Ghost Talk” in the Qing Dynasty and comments on its contribution in the theory of grammaticalization.