Professor Huang Borong also discussed the history of Chinese grammar. In his article "A Study of Chinese Grammar", he believes that the study of Chinese grammar can be roughly divided into four stages: spontaneous stage, imitation of western grammar textbooks, adoption of western grammar theories, and initial establishment of Chinese grammar based on Chinese reality.
In the teaching and research of Chinese characters, Huang Borong has written Characters of the Motherland (1954), Chinese Common Sense Series, Common Sense of Chinese Characters (1959) and Characters with Several Pronunciation (196 1).
On the phonetics of Putonghua, he wrote Beijing Phonetics Learning (1956).
In terms of Chinese dialects, Huang Borong has studied Guangdong dialects, especially Yangjiang dialects, for nearly 30 years, and has published many books, which have in-depth research on the comparison between dialects and Putonghua in pronunciation and grammar.
Dialect grammar is a weak link in the study of Chinese dialects. Huang Borong attaches importance to and has been engaged in the study of dialect grammar for a long time, especially paying attention to the syntactic comparison between dialect and Putonghua, which is worth promoting. This is of great significance both from the in-depth study of Chinese dialects and from the promotion of Putonghua.
In the study of dialect phonetics, Huang Borong wrote a long article entitled "Phonetic Comparison between Guangzhou Dialect and Mandarin" (1955), in which two thousand commonly used Chinese characters were used to compare the phonology and intonation of the two dialects. Among them, focusing on the comparison of initials, 2000 Chinese characters are arranged in the order of vowels in Guangzhou dialect, and each Chinese character is marked with the phonology of two dialects.
Huang Borong also wrote the Yangjiang dialect part for Chinese Dialect Vocabulary and Chinese Dialect Vocabulary published by the Character Reform Publishing House.
He not only did a lot of research on the dialect in Yangjiang, his hometown, but also studied the dialect in Lanzhou. This paper gives a general introduction to the pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar of Lanzhou dialect, and has written an Overview of Lanzhou Dialect and Lanzhou Dialect (both in cooperation with Zhao Jun).
In the aspect of character reform, Huang Borong also published some articles, participated in the discussion of the Chinese Pinyin Scheme (draft), and advocated canceling the letters J and W. After the scheme of simplified characters was announced, in order to publicize the scheme, he analyzed the structure of 789 simplified characters in the article "Structure of Simplified Characters" (1955), and divided these simplified characters into three categories according to their physical structures.
From 1978 to 1979, Huang Borong participated in the compilation of Modern Chinese, a cooperative textbook in colleges and universities, and co-edited with Liao Xudong.