钱冠连先生一生真正可谓“活到老,学到老”,且还“创新到老”。他呕心沥血写下的四本专著和近百篇论文,摘得了人生奋斗中一串串多而沉的学术葡萄,在国内外语言学和语言哲学两界产生了深远的影响。论著中所提出的若干观点独树一帜,从人的生存状态和哲学角度深刻揭示了语言乃至世界的规律,既有经验性分析,也有思辨性探索,更有不断创新的火花。他立足理论建构,见解精辟,自成一派,在学术界发挥着领军作用,大有拓荒者之风貌,值得国人仿效。

Qian has not only well performed the maxim of “being never too old to learn”,but also extended it to sticking to originality even when Qian being aged. His four books and more than one hundred papers are the great achievements of his infinite painstaking efforts. He has picked up the clusters of grapes within his reach in the academic struggle of life, which have made resounding influences in the Linguistics and Philosophy of Language Circles both at home and abroad. Most ideas among his publications are unique as well as advancing, bringing to light the language’s and world’s law from the viewpoint of the surviving state of man and philosophical basis, filled with empirical analyses, speculative explorations, and creative sparks. Qian, adhering wholeheartedly to the theoretical construction, has established his own system of theories with significant and far-reaching originality. Therefore, he plays a leading role in our academic circle. Pioneer Qian, an excellent example of ours!