| Acknowledgements | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第9-12页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第15-23页 |
| ·About the Principles & Parameters Approach | 第15-16页 |
| ·The Unsolved Tension between Descriptive Adequacy and Explanatory Adequacy Observed in the Mandarin Passive Construction | 第16-19页 |
| ·Theoretical Objectives of the Dissertation | 第19-21页 |
| ·Format of the Dissertation | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter 2 Overview of Related Literature: Problems and Partial Conclusions Therein | 第23-82页 |
| ·Introduction | 第23-24页 |
| ·Chomsky's Standard Theory (ST) and the Chinese bei-constructions | 第24-29页 |
| ·English Passivization in the Light of ST | 第24页 |
| ·Chinese Passivization in the Light of ST | 第24-25页 |
| ·Problems and Some Preliminary Conclusions | 第25-29页 |
| ·Chomsky's GB Theory and the Chinese bei-Constructions Regarded as Passives | 第29-54页 |
| ·Maturation of the View on English Passivization: .By-Phrase as a VP-Adjunct | 第29-32页 |
| ·Establishing the Passive Status of the bei-less Patient Subject Sentence | 第32-38页 |
| ·Distinguishing the bei-less Patient Subject Sentence from the Ergative Sentence | 第32-35页 |
| ·Refuting D. Shi's (1997) View on the Non-Passive Status of the bei-less Patient Subject Sentence | 第35-38页 |
| ·A Preliminary Account on the Syntactic Status of bei | 第38-46页 |
| ·The Case-Absorption Theory of English and Chinese Passivization | 第46-54页 |
| ·The Case-Absorption Theory of English Passivization | 第46-48页 |
| ·Endeavors to Account for the Chinese Passivization within GB | 第48-51页 |
| ·Problems with A. Li's Proposal | 第51-54页 |
| ·Summary | 第54页 |
| ·The GB Theory and the Chinese bei-Constructions Regarded as Non-Passives | 第54-59页 |
| ·The Minimalist Program and the Mandarin Passive Studies | 第59-73页 |
| ·A Brief Account of the Minimalist Program and English Passivization in Minimalist Terms | 第59-64页 |
| ·Characterizations of the Chinese Passivization in Minimalist Terms | 第64-73页 |
| ·Recapitulation of the Chapter | 第73-82页 |
| Chapter 3 Remodeling the Chinese Passivization along the Derivational Line | 第82-138页 |
| ·Introduction | 第82页 |
| ·Postulation ofVa in the Chinese Passivization | 第82-96页 |
| ·Objections to the Thesis of Argument Augmentation in Chinese Passives | 第83-89页 |
| ·Questioning the Thesis of Patient Subjectivization and/or Agent Adjunctivization | 第89-94页 |
| ·The Way Out | 第94-96页 |
| ·Conceptualization of Chinese Passives and Postulation of T_(def)P | 第96-104页 |
| ·Croft's Tripartite Event ICMs and'Derived Voice' | 第96-99页 |
| ·Cognitive Semantics of Chinese Passives | 第99-103页 |
| ·Summary | 第103-104页 |
| ·Postulation of BeiP in Replacement of vP in the Chinese Passivization | 第104-110页 |
| ·Rationale for Right-Adjunction of T_(def)P | 第110-113页 |
| ·Aspect-Marker and Interpretation of PRO in T_(def)P | 第113-114页 |
| ·Syntactic Status of the Particle Bei-bei Reconsidered | 第114-116页 |
| ·Issues Related to Affectee | 第116-122页 |
| ·Chinese Passives Containing a V-R Compound Construction | 第122-128页 |
| ·Summary | 第128-138页 |
| Chapter 4 Investigation of Some Remaining Issues Related to Chinese Passives within the New Model | 第138-191页 |
| ·Introduction | 第138页 |
| ·Chinese Formal Passives | 第138-149页 |
| ·Formal Passives and the Affectee Role Therein | 第138-143页 |
| ·Focus Structure in Formal Passives | 第143-147页 |
| ·The Affectee Role by Way of a Variable | 第147-149页 |
| ·Summary | 第149页 |
| ·Resumptive Pronouns with Relation to bei-Passives and Possessive Passives | 第149-179页 |
| ·Pronoun, Resumptive Pronoun (RP) and D-pronoun | 第150-154页 |
| ·RPs in the Chinese fez-Passives | 第154-178页 |
| ·Use of RPs Connected with a Particular Subtype of Passives in Chinese | 第157-159页 |
| ·Referential Property of RPs in Mandarin Long bei-Passives | 第159-178页 |
| ·Variables by Way of RPs in Long fez-Passives | 第160-162页 |
| ·Pro Elements by Way of RPs in Long fez-Passives | 第162-178页 |
| ·RPs as Substitutes for Pro Elements in Conformity with BC B | 第163-165页 |
| ·Sentence-Internal Co-reference of RPs Replacing Pro Elements in fez-Passives | 第165-168页 |
| ·Possessive Passives and Fossessor Raising Phenomenon Reconsidered | 第168-178页 |
| ·Summary | 第178-179页 |
| ·Passivization of Chinese Pivotal Constructions | 第179-185页 |
| ·Summary | 第185-191页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第191-198页 |
| Bibliography | 第198-208页 |
