Abstract: Chinese scholars hold that in the Chinese sentence pattern “lian”，the words between “lian” and“ye/dou” are for emphatic function. From the perspective of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, this paper argues that in studying this “lian” pattern, one should also consider the emphatic part’s semantic alignment and this is needed by the overall meaning of the “lian” pattern.

Key words: overallindication, semanticalignment, emphaticpart