| Acknowledgements | 第3-5页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第5页 |
| List of Tables | 第8页 |
| List of Appendices | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-14页 |
| 1．1 The Need for Investigating the Overpassivization Errors in the Acquisition of English Unaccusative Verbs of Existence/Appearance | 第9-11页 |
| 1．2 Research Questions | 第11-12页 |
| 1．3 The Outline of the Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Review of the related literature | 第14-37页 |
| 2．1 Introduction | 第14页 |
| 2．2 Main Features of English Unaccusative Verbs | 第14-19页 |
| 2．2．1 Unaccusative verbs vs． unergative verbs | 第15-18页 |
| 2．2．2 Unaccusatives vs． Passives | 第18-19页 |
| 2．3 Three Approaches to the Study of L2 Acquisition of English Verbs of E/A | 第19-35页 |
| 2．3．1 Explanation of Overpassivization from a Syntactic Perspective | 第20-23页 |
| 2．3．1．1 Yip's Transitivization Account | 第20-21页 |
| 2．3．1．2 Zobl's Postverbsl NP-Movement Account | 第21-23页 |
| 2．3．2 Explanation of Overpassivization from a Cognitive Perspective | 第23-25页 |
| 2．3．3 Explanation of Overpassivization from a Lexical Semantic Perspective | 第25-35页 |
| 2．3．3．1 Lexical Semantic Structure Theory: An Introduction | 第26-33页 |
| 2．3．3．2 How Overpassivization is accounted for within the Theory | 第33页 |
| 2．3．3．3 Empirical Studies on Overpassivization of English Unaccusatives from Lexical Semantic Perspective | 第33-35页 |
| 2．4 Summary and Conclusion | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter 3 Hypothesizing Acquisition of English Verbs of Existence/Appearance by Chinese Learners | 第37-50页 |
| 3．1 Introduction | 第37页 |
| 3．2 Prior Consideration | 第37-38页 |
| 3．3 A Lexical Semantic Analysis of English Verbs of Existence/Appearance | 第38-44页 |
| 3．4 A Lexical Semantic Analysis of Chinese Counterparts of English Verbs of Existence/Appearance | 第44-48页 |
| 3．5 Hypotheses | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter 4: Acquisition Pattern of English Verbs of Existence/Appearance | 第50-69页 |
| 4．1 Introduction | 第50页 |
| 4．2 Research Design, Instrumentation, Data-collection and Data Analysis | 第50-58页 |
| 4．2．1 Research Design | 第50-52页 |
| 4．2．1．1 Subjects | 第50-51页 |
| 4．2．1．2 Research Design | 第51-52页 |
| 4．2．2 Instrumentation | 第52-54页 |
| 4．2．3 Data Collection | 第54-55页 |
| 4．2．4 Data Analysis | 第55-58页 |
| 4．2．4．1 Scoring | 第55-57页 |
| 4．2．4．2 Statistical Analysis | 第57-58页 |
| 4．2．4．3 Qualitative Analysis | 第58页 |
| 4．3 Results | 第58-69页 |
| 4．3．1 Results for Hypothesis One | 第58-63页 |
| 4．3．2 Results for Hypothesis Two | 第63-65页 |
| 4．3．3 Results for Hypothesis Three | 第65-66页 |
| 4．3．4 Qualitaive results | 第66-69页 |
| 4．3．4．1 Inconsistency in judgments | 第66-67页 |
| 4．3．4．2 A preference for passives | 第67-69页 |
| Chapter 5 Discussion and Conclusion | 第69-77页 |
| 5．1 Major findings of the study | 第69-70页 |
| 5．2 Discussion of the Results | 第70-74页 |
| 5．2．1 Acquisition Pattern of English E/A Verbs by Chinese Learners | 第70-72页 |
| 5．2．2 The Effect of Animacy Factor | 第72-73页 |
| 5．2．3 Overpassivization or not? | 第73页 |
| 5．2．4 Fossilization of Lexical Development in SLA | 第73-74页 |
| 5．3 Conclusion | 第74-75页 |
| 5．4 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Studies | 第75-77页 |
| Bibliography | 第77-93页 |
