| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| 前言 | 第9-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第13-21页 |
| ·Previous studies of DOC in English and Chinese | 第13-20页 |
| ·The motivation for the thesis | 第20页 |
| ·The structure of the thesis | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Background | 第21-30页 |
| ·X-bar theory | 第21-22页 |
| ·Movement | 第22-24页 |
| ·VP-internal subject | 第24-26页 |
| ·Light verb | 第26页 |
| ·VP shell | 第26-27页 |
| ·Argument structure | 第27-28页 |
| ·C-command | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter 3 The Definition of DOC | 第30-33页 |
| ·The definition of DOC in English | 第30-31页 |
| ·The definition of DOC in Chinese | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter 4 Syntactic Analysis of DOC | 第33-47页 |
| ·DOC verbs and their sentence patterns | 第33-42页 |
| ·English and Chinese Verbs in DOC and their Sentence Patterns | 第33-39页 |
| ·The typical DOC pattern and the dative construction (DC) | 第39-41页 |
| ·The Transformation of some sentence patterns | 第41-42页 |
| ·The syntactic derivation of the typical DOC in English and Chinese | 第42-47页 |
| Chapter 5 A Comparison between English and Chinese DOC | 第47-58页 |
| ·Similarities | 第47-49页 |
| ·Similarities of the verb | 第47页 |
| ·Similarities of the object | 第47-49页 |
| ·Differences | 第49-58页 |
| ·Differences of the Verb | 第49-51页 |
| ·Differences of the object | 第51-55页 |
| ·Differences of the passive of DOC | 第55-58页 |
| Chapter 6 Explanation for the Findings | 第58-65页 |
| ·From a perspective of language acquisition | 第58-59页 |
| ·From the perspective of universal grammar | 第59-62页 |
| ·From the perspective of cultural differences between the east and the west | 第62-65页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第65-69页 |
| References | 第69-70页 |
