Wu Yisheng devoted himself to teaching and studying Chinese, involving Chinese grammar, theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, radio and television language and other fields. He has made outstanding contributions to the study of Chinese valence grammar and Chinese sentence groups. Her rigorous, realistic and innovative academic spirit has been widely praised by academic circles. 1992 was awarded "special government allowance" by the State Council. He died in Beijing on June 5438+ 10/0, 2009, at the age of 75.