| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第6-8页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第8-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Argument Structure and Event Structure | 第14-34页 |
| ·The Linking Problem and the Syntactic Approach | 第14-17页 |
| ·The Resultative Construction | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Aspectual Event Structure Approach | 第18-20页 |
| ·Event Structure and the Present Approach to Event Structure | 第20-32页 |
| ·The Plans for the Study | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter 2 Event Structure of the Clause | 第34-103页 |
| ·Mapping theories and the Lexicon | 第34-39页 |
| ·Predicate-centered Mapping | 第35-38页 |
| ·External and Internal Arguments | 第38-39页 |
| ·Major Event Structure Theories | 第39-60页 |
| ·Mapping Governed by Aspectual Features | 第39-41页 |
| ·Aspectual Prominence and Event Structure-Argument Associations | 第41-44页 |
| ·Talmy's Macro-Event and Force-Dynamics | 第44-47页 |
| ·Van Vanlin's Logical Structure | 第47-53页 |
| ·Croft's (1998) Causal Chain Model | 第53-56页 |
| ·The Lexical Conceptual Structures and The Semantic Representation | 第56-60页 |
| ·The Present Event Structure Approach | 第60-86页 |
| ·The Four Basic Events | 第60-62页 |
| ·The Formal Representations of the Basic Events | 第62-69页 |
| ·The Combination of the Basic Events and Lexicalization Patterns | 第69-72页 |
| ·The Lexicalization Patterns | 第72-82页 |
| ·The Linking Regularities | 第82-86页 |
| ·The Syntax of Event Structure | 第86-103页 |
| ·The VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis and the Larsonian VP-Shell | 第87-92页 |
| ·The Relationship between Thematic Roles and Syntactic Positions | 第92-94页 |
| ·Wang's (2003) Thematic Structure Approach | 第94-100页 |
| ·The Structural Representation of the Event Structure | 第100-103页 |
| Chapter 3 The Event Structure of the Resultative and the Causative Constructions | 第103-148页 |
| ·The Characteristics of the Resultative Construction | 第105-110页 |
| ·Empirical Challenges for the DOR | 第110-115页 |
| ·An Event Structure Perspective on the Resultative Construction | 第115-121页 |
| ·Rappaport Hovav and Levin's Two Approaches | 第121-127页 |
| ·The Lexical Semantic Analysis | 第121-124页 |
| ·Rappaport Hovav and Levin's (2001) Event Structure Account | 第124-127页 |
| ·The Application of the Present Approach to the Resultative Constructions | 第127-148页 |
| ·The Dimensions of the Resultative Lexicalizations | 第127-132页 |
| ·The Causal Chains | 第132-136页 |
| ·The Causative Construction and the Resultative Construction | 第136-139页 |
| ·Compound Predicates and their Structural Representations | 第139-148页 |
| Chapter 4 Resultative Constructions in Chinese and English | 第148-209页 |
| ·The Types of Resultative Constructions | 第149-154页 |
| ·The Event Structure Constraints on Resultative Constructions in Chinese | 第154-172页 |
| ·Action Event 1 as the Cause of the Complex Event Structure | 第156-162页 |
| ·Action Function 2 as the Cause of the Complex Event Structure | 第162-172页 |
| ·The Event Structure Analysis of the Resultative Constructions in Chinese | 第172-209页 |
| ·The Characteristics of Various Resultative Constructions in Chinese | 第177-194页 |
| ·The Analysis of Some Complex Sentences | 第194-200页 |
| ·The ba constructions | 第200-209页 |
| Chapter 5 On the Double Object Construction | 第209-237页 |
| ·The Characteristics of the Ditransitive Constructions | 第209-215页 |
| ·The Semantics of the Ditransitive Constructions | 第209-212页 |
| ·The Event Structure of the Ditransitive Constructions | 第212-215页 |
| ·The Ditransitive Constructions in Chinese | 第215-218页 |
| ·The Ditransitive Constructions and the Resultative Construction | 第218-226页 |
| ·The Relationship between the Two Kinds of Constructions | 第218-222页 |
| ·The Case Feature Evidence | 第222-226页 |
| ·The Event Structure Representation of the Ditransitive Constructions | 第226-228页 |
| ·The Structural Representation of the Ditransitive Constructions | 第228-237页 |
| Concluding Remarks | 第237-240页 |
| Glossary | 第240-241页 |
| References | 第241-252页 |
