| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| CONTENTS | 第10-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION | 第12-22页 |
| 1.1 Definition and classification of English and Chinese ECs | 第12-14页 |
| 1.2 Features of the verbs used in ECs | 第14-17页 |
| 1.3 Research questions | 第17-19页 |
| 1.4 The proposed system | 第19页 |
| 1.5 Summary | 第19-22页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第22-32页 |
| 2.1 Previous studies on English non-canonical ECs | 第22-28页 |
| 2.1.1 Previous studies using a syntactic approach | 第22-26页 |
| 2.1.2 Previous studies using a pragmatic approach | 第26-27页 |
| 2.1.3 Summing up | 第27-28页 |
| 2.2 Previous studies on Chinese non-canonical ECs | 第28-30页 |
| 2.2.1 Yang’s analysis | 第28页 |
| 2.2.2 Pan’s analysis | 第28-29页 |
| 2.2.3 Summing up | 第29-30页 |
| 2.3 Summary | 第30-32页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第32-38页 |
| 3.1 Hale and Keyser’s configurarional approach to event structures | 第32-34页 |
| 3.2 Huang’s light verb syntax | 第34-35页 |
| 3.3 Summary | 第35-38页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR EXISTENTIALIZATION OF UNERGATIVE VERBS IN ENGLISH ECS | 第38-60页 |
| 4.1 Semantic properties of ECs | 第38-45页 |
| 4.1.1 Semantic properties of canonical ECs with unaccusative verbs | 第38-42页 |
| 4.1.2 Semantic properties of ECs with unergative verbs | 第42-44页 |
| 4.1.3 Summing up | 第44-45页 |
| 4.2 Proposal of light verb EXIST | 第45-52页 |
| 4.2.1 Light verb EXIST in previous literature | 第45-47页 |
| 4.2.2 Proposal of the light verb EXIST | 第47-51页 |
| 4.2.3 Proposal of the syntactic process Existentialization | 第51页 |
| 4.2.4 Summing up | 第51-52页 |
| 4.3 The derivational process of ECs with unergative verbs | 第52-57页 |
| 4.3.1 The derivational process of there-be constructions with unergative verbs | 第52-55页 |
| 4.3.2 The derivational process of LIs with unergative verbs | 第55-57页 |
| 4.3.3 Summing up | 第57页 |
| 4.4 Other benefits of the proposal | 第57-58页 |
| 4.5 Summary | 第58-60页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE EXISTENTIALIZATION OF PASSIVIZED TRANSITIVE VERBS IN ENGLISH ECS AND TRANSITIVE VERBS IN CHINESE ECS | 第60-72页 |
| 5.1 Analysis of English ECs with passivized transitive verbs | 第60-65页 |
| 5.1.1 Analysis of English there-be construction with passivized transitive verbs | 第60-63页 |
| 5.1.2 Analysis of English LIs with passivized transitive verbs | 第63-65页 |
| 5.2 Analysis of Chinese ECs with transitive verbs | 第65-70页 |
| 5.2.1 Argument structure of the transitive verbs in Chinese ECs | 第65-67页 |
| 5.2.2 Semantic properties and the derivational process of Chinese ECs with transitive verbs | 第67-70页 |
| 5.3 Summary | 第70-72页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第72-76页 |
| REFERENCES | 第76-78页 |
