Abstract: Contrastive studies from a local grammar perspective have provided a new approach to investigating form-meaning features in various texts. Previous studies have revealed the characteristic functions and meanings in the evaluative language of different genres and language users. However, most studies focus on the adjective patterns. No study has yet accounted for the roles of noun patterns in encoding evaluative meanings from a local grammar perspective. This paper, based on the sub-corpora of Law from the Beijing CARE comparable academic corpus, conducts a contrastive investigation into Chinese and Western scholars' high-frequency local grammar patterns associated with three noun evaluative patterns: there v-link N of, there v-link N in, and n v-link of N. The results indicate that the two groups show significant differences in their uses of the evaluative patterns and local grammar patterns: compared with Western scholars, Chinese scholars significantly infrequently use the three evaluative patterns; the two groups both have characteristic local grammar patterns, showing characteristic meanings/functions. This study provides a new exploratory perspective for academic discourse analysis and offers pedagogical implications for academic English writing.