| Acknowledgments | 第1-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| ·Middle constructions in languages | 第11-12页 |
| ·Purpose and Significance of the Study | 第12-14页 |
| ·Methodology and procedures | 第14-15页 |
| ·Asketch map of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第17-22页 |
| ·Studies of Middle Constructions Abroad | 第17-20页 |
| ·Studies of Middle Constructions at Home | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter 3 Cognitive Account of Middle Construction | 第22-31页 |
| ·Conditions of middle construction and their problems | 第22-27页 |
| ·Affectedness condition | 第22-23页 |
| ·Responsibility condition | 第23-24页 |
| ·Aspectual condition | 第24页 |
| ·Agentivity condition | 第24-25页 |
| ·Anti-effectedness condition | 第25页 |
| ·Argument sensitivity | 第25-26页 |
| ·Delimited event condition | 第26-27页 |
| ·Anti-double-object condition | 第27页 |
| ·Non-human subject condition | 第27页 |
| ·The cognitive motivation of middle construction | 第27-29页 |
| ·Defining properties of middle construction | 第29-31页 |
| ·Perfective condition | 第29-30页 |
| ·Cognitive Prominence condition of passive participant | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter 4 Comparison and contrast between English and Chinese middle construction | 第31-49页 |
| ·The Syntactic features of English and Chinese middle construction | 第31-36页 |
| ·Syntactic Features of English middle construction | 第31-33页 |
| ·Adverbial Modification | 第31-32页 |
| ·Genericity | 第32页 |
| ·Subject Raising | 第32-33页 |
| ·Syntactic Features of Chinese middle construction | 第33-35页 |
| ·Adverbial Modification | 第33-34页 |
| ·Genericity | 第34-35页 |
| ·Subject Raising | 第35页 |
| ·A Comparison Between the syntactic features of English and Chinese Middle construction | 第35-36页 |
| ·Semantic Features of English and Chinese middle constructions | 第36-43页 |
| ·Semantic Features of English middle construction | 第36-40页 |
| ·Agent-independence | 第36-38页 |
| ·Non-eventiveness | 第38-39页 |
| ·Patient-responsibility | 第39-40页 |
| ·Semantic features of Chinese middle construction | 第40-42页 |
| ·Modality | 第40-41页 |
| ·Non-eventivity | 第41-42页 |
| ·Agentivity | 第42页 |
| ·A Comparison Between the semantic features of English and Chinese Middle construction | 第42-43页 |
| ·Pragmatic Features of English and Chinese middle construction | 第43-45页 |
| ·Informality | 第43-44页 |
| ·Independence of Context | 第44页 |
| ·The differences between English and Chinese middle construction from pragmatic perspectives | 第44-45页 |
| ·Particularity of Chinese Middle Construction | 第45-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-49页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第49-51页 |
| BibliograPhy | 第51-55页 |
| 学位论文数据集 | 第55页 |
