This is the first book on the Serbi-Mongolic language family - a major language family of Asia - and the first modern linguistic study of the Serbi (Xianbei) peoples, whose conquest of North China took place at approximately the same time as the Germanic and Hunnic Volkerwanderung into the former Western Roman Empire. The findings presented in this book - the first rigorous and systematic unified theory on the origins of the Mongolic and Serbi languages - add substantially to our understanding of the linguistic geography of Eastern Eurasia, and to the ethnolinguistic history of the Mongolic peoples and their neighbors, including speakers of Chinese, Japanese-Koguryoic, Tibeto-Burman, Tungusic, possibly Indo-European, and later, Turkic. This book also enhances our understanding of attested Middle Chinese, Early Old Mandarin, and Old Tibetan phonology. Moreover, it is the first study to present linguistic sketches of Taghbach (Tuoba), Tuyuhun ('Azha), and Kitan (Qidan), and to systematically compare Kitan and Mongol morphological and syntactic paradigms, resulting in the first reconstruction of Common Serbi-Mongolic phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax. Readers interested in Mongolia, the Mongols, North China, Central Eurasia, the Tibetan Empire, languages of Asia, historical linguistics, and history will find this book to be a useful resource.

《古突厥语语法》试图对古代突厥语语法作一全面描写，描写对象是中国周边古突厥民族遗留之文献；至于其他地区的突厥民族，在13世纪蒙古铁骑纵横天下以至于突厥世界面目全非之前，似未留下任何文字资料。
《古突厥语语法》是对古突厥语研究现状的一个个人总结，但是，通过对语料的深入研究和对数据的细致分析，其中某些章节应当加以扩展而成专著。
《古突厥语语法》作者希望《古突厥语语法》的译本可为推动中国高等学府、科研院所对古突厥语进行语言学、语文学的研究打下坚实的基础。