Abstract: Based on the findings of the academic Chinese circles, this paper studies the form and meaning of the “shi”-causative construction from the Cardiff Grammar perspective. Guided by the meaning-oriented Cardiff Grammar principle, the paper establishes “Shi” as a Main Verb in the construction. Taking quite a number of sentences as examples, the paper analyzes the syntactic structure, semantic features and syntactic functions of the “shi”-causative constructions. Results of the analysis are explicitly presented with tree diagrams.