| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-11页 |
| Abbreviation | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-20页 |
| ·Traditional views on VP-ellipsis | 第12-15页 |
| ·Pros and cons of the traditional approaches of analyzing ellipsis | 第15-17页 |
| ·Definitions of VP-ellipsis | 第17-18页 |
| ·The general organization of this thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 2 Literary review | 第20-38页 |
| ·Syntactic approaches and semantic approaches on VPE in TG grammar | 第20-32页 |
| ·The derived VP rule analysis (DVPR analysis) | 第21-24页 |
| ·The binding theory analysis | 第24-27页 |
| ·The dependency analysis | 第27-30页 |
| ·Semantic approach on VPE:the equational analysis | 第30-32页 |
| ·The licensing condition for VPE in TG grammar | 第32-36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter 3 A syntactic-semantic perspective of VPE | 第38-57页 |
| ·The advantages of a syntactic-semantic analysis of VPE | 第38页 |
| ·Three theories and their integration | 第38-46页 |
| ·Taxonomy of functional categories | 第38-40页 |
| ·Specifier-head agreement & empty complement | 第40-44页 |
| ·Stowell's [+tense] theory | 第44-46页 |
| ·A tentative application of the theory to other linguistic phenomena | 第46-52页 |
| ·VP-preposing | 第46-50页 |
| ·Eventive predicates | 第50-52页 |
| ·Applying the theoretical framework concretely to analysis of VPE | 第52-54页 |
| ·Categorizing by licenser/operator | 第52-54页 |
| ·Categorizing by sentence patterns | 第54页 |
| ·The semantic aspect of the [+tense] theory | 第54-57页 |
| Chapter 4 The [+tense] account in the Minirnalist Program (MP) | 第57-63页 |
| ·VP shell theory | 第57-60页 |
| ·Accounting for the V-to-v raising | 第60-61页 |
| ·The revised [+tense] vp-ellipsis analysis under the Minimalist Program (MP) framework | 第61-63页 |
| Chapter 5 The application of the MP account theories to the analysis of Chinese verbal ellipsis construction | 第63-79页 |
| ·The V-to-Infl raising VPE treatment of the Chinese null object construction adopted by Huang C.T.J | 第64-68页 |
| ·Empirical evidence in support of the VPE treatment of the Chinese null object construction | 第66-68页 |
| ·Hoji's arguments against Huang's VPE treatment of null object construction | 第68页 |
| ·The V-to-v raising VPE analysis proposed by Li (1998) | 第68-79页 |
| ·The VPE treatment of types of verbs in the Chinese null object construction | 第70-74页 |
| ·The application of VP shell theory to the analysis of the Chinese null object construction | 第74-78页 |
| ·The specific case of the Chinese null object construction involving action verbs | 第78-79页 |
| Chapter 6 Summary | 第79-83页 |
| ·Reconsideration of the difference between Chinese and English with respect to VPE in the sense of the VP shell theory | 第79-81页 |
| ·The advantages of the [+tense] theory | 第81-82页 |
| ·Limitations of the present findings | 第82-83页 |
| References | 第83-88页 |
