| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-13页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第13-14页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第14-22页 |
| 1.1 Preliminaries: Binding Theory and the Chinese Reflexive Ziji self | 第14-18页 |
| 1.1.1 Binding Condition A (Chomsky 1981) | 第14-15页 |
| 1.1.2 Violation of Binding Condition A in Chinese | 第15-17页 |
| 1.1.3 Research Status | 第17-18页 |
| 1.2 Aim of the Study | 第18页 |
| 1.2.1 The Study Object | 第18页 |
| 1.2.2 Research Questions | 第18页 |
| 1.3 My Proposal | 第18-19页 |
| 1.4 The Organization of the Thesis | 第19-22页 |
| CHAPTER TWO STUDIES ON THE CHINESE REFLEXIVE ZIJI SELF·: AN OVERVIEW | 第22-38页 |
| 2.1 Introduction | 第22页 |
| 2.2 The Previous Studies on Long-distance Binding of Ziji self | 第22-25页 |
| 2.2.1 Parameterization Analysis | 第22-23页 |
| 2.2.2 Logic Form Movement Proposal | 第23-24页 |
| 2.2.3 Feature-checking Approach | 第24-25页 |
| 2.3 The Asymmetry between the Chinese First/Second Person Pronouns and the Third Person Pronouns in the Blocking Effect | 第25-27页 |
| 2.3.1 The Third Person Pronouns and the Blocking Effect | 第25-26页 |
| 2.3.2 The First/Second Person Pronouns and the Blocking Effect | 第26-27页 |
| 2.4 The Previous Proposals on the Blocking Effect of Long-distance Bound Ziji self | 第27-37页 |
| 2.4.1 Self-ascription Analysis: Pan (1997, 2001) | 第27-30页 |
| 2.4.2 Logophoric Approach: Huang & Liu (2000) | 第30-33页 |
| 2.4.3 NP Prominence Account: Hu & Pan (2002) | 第33-36页 |
| 2.4.4 Limitations of the Proposals | 第36-37页 |
| 2.5 Summary | 第37-38页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THE GRAMMATICAL STATUS of PERSONAL PRONOUNS AND THE BLOCKING EFFECT | 第38-64页 |
| 3.1 Introduction | 第38页 |
| 3.2 The Factors Involved in Long-distance Binding and the Blocking Effect | 第38-44页 |
| 3.2.1 The Grammatical Status of Ziji self | 第39-40页 |
| 3.2.2 The Person of the Local Antecedent | 第40页 |
| 3.2.3 The Semantic Orientation of the Verb | 第40-43页 |
| 3.2.4 Interim Summary | 第43-44页 |
| 3.3 The Grammatical Status of Personal Pronouns | 第44-48页 |
| 3.3.1 The Semantic Status of Personal Pronouns | 第44-46页 |
| 3.3.2 The Syntactic Status of Personal Pronouns | 第46-48页 |
| 3.3.3 A Summary of the Grammatical Status of Personal Pronouns | 第48页 |
| 3.4 The Grammatical Status of the Chinese Personal Pronouns | 第48-55页 |
| 3.4.1 The Semantic Status of the Chinese Personal Pronouns: My Assumption | 第49页 |
| 3.4.2 The Semantic Status of the Chinese Personal Pronouns: the Justification | 第49-53页 |
| 3.4.3 The Syntactic Status of the Chinese Personal Pronouns: Pro-DPs and Pro- Ps | 第53-55页 |
| 3.4.4 A Summary of Grammatical Status of the Chinese Personal Pronouns | 第55页 |
| 3.5 The Asymmetry between the Chinese First/Second Person Pronouns and the Third Person Pronouns in the Blocking Effect of Ziji self | 第55-60页 |
| 3.5.1 The Findings in the Previous Studies | 第55-57页 |
| 3.5.2 My Observations | 第57-59页 |
| 3.5.3 A Summary of Asymmetries in the Blocking Effect | 第59-60页 |
| 3.6 The Grammatical Status of the Chinese Personal Pronouns and the Blocking Effect | 第60-62页 |
| 3.6.1 My Proposal | 第60-61页 |
| 3.6.2 An Account for the Asymmetry between the Chinese First/Second Person Pronouns and the Third Person Pronouns in the Blocking Effect | 第61-62页 |
| 3.6.3 Interim Summary | 第62页 |
| 3.7 Summary | 第62-64页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR ASYMMETRIES BETWEEN THE CHINESE FIRST/SECOND PERSON PRONOUNS AND THE THIRD PERSON PRONOUNS IN OTHER CONSTRUCTIONS | 第64-72页 |
| 4.1 Introduction | 第64页 |
| 4.2 Existential Constructions and the Asymmetry of the Chinese Personal Pronouns | 第64-65页 |
| 4.3 Restrictive Modification and the Asymmetry of the Chinese Personal Pronouns | 第65-67页 |
| 4.4 Quantification and the Asymmetry of the Chinese Personal Pronouns | 第67-69页 |
| 4.4.1 Universal Quantification | 第67-68页 |
| 4.4.2 Existential Quantification | 第68-69页 |
| 4.5 VP Ellipsis Constructions and the Asymmetry of the Chinese Personal Pronouns | 第69-71页 |
| 4.5.1 The Personal Pronoun as the Embedded Subject | 第69-70页 |
| 4.5.2 The Personal Pronoun as the Embedded Object | 第70-71页 |
| 4.6 Summary | 第71-72页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第72-77页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第72-73页 |
| 5.1.1 Distinctive Grammatical Status of the Chinese Personal Pronouns | 第72页 |
| 5.1.2 Distinctive Grammatical Status of the Chinese Personal Pronouns and the Asymmetry in the Blocking Effect | 第72-73页 |
| 5.1.3 Asymmetries between the Chinese First/Second Person Pronouns and the Third Person Pronouns in Other Constructions | 第73页 |
| 5.2 Implications and Significance of My Study | 第73-75页 |
| 5.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study | 第75-77页 |
| REFERENCES | 第77-80页 |
