| Curriculum Vitae | 第1-7页 |
| Published and Accepted Academic Works | 第7-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-13页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第13-18页 |
| List of Tables | 第18-20页 |
| List of Figures | 第20-26页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第26-35页 |
| ·Research Orientation | 第26页 |
| ·The Unaccusative Verbs: the Target of Research | 第26-27页 |
| ·Rationale for the Study | 第27-32页 |
| ·Key Research Questions | 第32-33页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter 2 In Search of Theoretical Foundation: Oshita's Unaccusative Trap Hypothesis (UTH) | 第35-51页 |
| ·Introduction | 第35-37页 |
| ·Empirical Basis of UTH | 第37-39页 |
| ·The Single-Argument Linking Rule | 第39-43页 |
| ·Three Stages of the Unaccusative Acquisition in L2 English x | 第43-46页 |
| ·General Predictions of UTH | 第46页 |
| ·A General Comment on UTH | 第46-51页 |
| Chapter 3 Cross-linguistic Analysis of Unaccusativity | 第51-112页 |
| ·Introduction | 第51-53页 |
| ·An Overview of Unaccusativity | 第53-59页 |
| ·Unaccusative Hypothesis | 第53-55页 |
| ·Unaccusativity Hierarchy | 第55-59页 |
| ·Unaccusativity of English and Other Languages | 第59-78页 |
| ·Deep vs.Surface Unaccusativity | 第59-62页 |
| ·Definiteness Effect (DE) | 第62-64页 |
| ·Diagnostics for Unaccusativity | 第64-75页 |
| ·Diagnostics for Italian and Dutch Unaccusativity | 第65-66页 |
| ·Diagnostics for English Unaccusativity | 第66-75页 |
| ·The Passive vs. the Unaccusative | 第75-78页 |
| ·Summary | 第78页 |
| ·Issues Pertaining to Chinese Unaccusativity | 第78-109页 |
| ·Subclasses of Chinese Unaccusatives | 第79-86页 |
| ·Surface Unaccusativity | 第86-89页 |
| ·DE of Chinese Unaccusativity | 第89-91页 |
| ·Diagnostics for Chinese Unaccusativity | 第91-103页 |
| ·The Unaccusative and the Passive in Chinese | 第103-109页 |
| ·Summary and Conclusions | 第109-112页 |
| Chapter 4 Predictions on L2 Acquisition of Chinese Unaccusatives by English-L1 Learners | 第112-125页 |
| ·Similarities and Differences between English and Chinese Unaccusativity: A Revisit | 第112-115页 |
| ·Implications of Cross-linguistic Differences for L2 Acquisition of Chinese Unaccusatives | 第115-117页 |
| ·L1 Transfer and Markedness Theories | 第115-117页 |
| ·Effect of Markedness on L2 Acquisition of ChineseUnaccusatives | 第117-121页 |
| ·Research Hypotheses | 第121-125页 |
| Chapter 5 The Empirical Study | 第125-139页 |
| ·Research Design | 第125-126页 |
| ·Participants | 第126-130页 |
| ·Instrumentation | 第130-136页 |
| ·Verb Tokens | 第131-133页 |
| ·Writing Production Task (WPT) | 第133-134页 |
| ·Grammaticality Judgement Task (GJT) | 第134-136页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第136-137页 |
| ·Data Preparations and Data Analysis | 第137-139页 |
| ·Scoring of WPT Data | 第137页 |
| ·Scoring of GJT Data | 第137页 |
| ·Data Preparations | 第137-138页 |
| ·Statistical Analysis | 第138-139页 |
| Chapter 6 Results for Research Hypotheses Testing | 第139-163页 |
| ·Introduction | 第139页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 1 | 第139-143页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 2 | 第143-145页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 3 | 第145-149页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 4 | 第149-151页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 5 | 第151-154页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 6 | 第154-158页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 7 | 第158-160页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 8 | 第160-163页 |
| Chapter 7 General Discussion | 第163-189页 |
| ·Introduction | 第163页 |
| ·Summary of Major Findings | 第163-171页 |
| ·Linguistic Finding: Chinese Unaccusativity Hierarchy | 第163-164页 |
| ·Empirical Findings | 第164-171页 |
| ·Unaccusative-related Phenomena in L2 Acquisition of Chinese | 第171-174页 |
| ·Factors Involved in L2 Acquisition of Chinese Unaccusativity | 第174-186页 |
| ·Developmental Route of L2 Acquisition of Chinese Unergatives | 第175-176页 |
| ·Developmental Route of L2 Acquisition of Chinese Unaccusatives | 第176-184页 |
| ·Other Issues Concerning Plough-shaped Route of Development | 第184-186页 |
| ·Summary | 第186-189页 |
| Chapter 8 Conclusions, Pedagogical Implications and Recommendations for Further Research | 第189-195页 |
| ·Conclusions: A Modified Developmental Model for L2 Acquisition of Chinese Unaccusatives | 第189-191页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第191-193页 |
| ·Recommendations for Further Research | 第193-195页 |
| References | 第195-206页 |
| Appendix A: Table 1-6 | 第206-208页 |
| Appendix B: Research Instruments | 第208-225页 |
