| 中文摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-8页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第8-20页 |
| ·WHAT IS CHINESE ADJECTIVE?1 | 第8-9页 |
| ·Co-occurrence with Word Affixes | 第8-9页 |
| ·THE STUDY SCOPE OF ADJECTIVES IN CHINESE LANGUAGE | 第9-16页 |
| ·Different Views on the Subdivision of Chinese Adjectives | 第10-11页 |
| ·The Criteria for the Differentiations between Adjectives and Verbs | 第11-12页 |
| ·Adjective+Object | 第12-13页 |
| ·Adjectives in V-R formula | 第13页 |
| ·Syntactic Function Studies on Adjectives | 第13-14页 |
| ·Valency of Adjectives | 第14-15页 |
| ·Studies Integrating Events into Adjectives and the Cognitive Study of Event Structure | 第15-16页 |
| ·Methods Used in Adjective Studies | 第16页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS IN ADJECTIVE STUDIES | 第16-18页 |
| ·FOCUS AND PREVIEW OF THE DISSERTATION | 第18页 |
| ·Focus of the Dissertation | 第18页 |
| ·the Method of Data Collection in the Dissertation | 第18页 |
| ·THE ORGANIZATION OF THE DISSERTATION | 第18-20页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第20-29页 |
| ·A HISTORIC REVIEW OF EVENT STUDIES | 第20页 |
| ·DEFINITIONS AND CATERGORIZATIONS | 第20-22页 |
| ·Definitions | 第20页 |
| ·Different Categorizations | 第20-21页 |
| ·Comment | 第21-22页 |
| ·EVENT STRUCTURE THEORY | 第22-24页 |
| ·Grammatical Semantics: A Brief Review | 第22-24页 |
| ·EVENT STRUCTURE REPRESENTATIONS | 第24-26页 |
| ·Mohanan’s Event Structure Representations | 第24-26页 |
| ·THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GS AND RELATED RESEARCH PROGRAM | 第26-29页 |
| ·GS and Montague Semantics (MS) | 第27-28页 |
| ·GS and Logical Form (LF) | 第28页 |
| ·Comment | 第28-29页 |
| CHAPTER THREE EVENT STRUCTURES of CHINESE ADJECTIVES | 第29-39页 |
| ·THE EVENT STRUCTURES DISPLAYED BY CHINESE ADJECTIVES | 第29-36页 |
| ·Adjectives in Static Events | 第29-33页 |
| ·Adjectives in Activities | 第33-34页 |
| ·Adjectives in Processes | 第34-36页 |
| ·CAUSATION IN ACCOMPLISHMENTS | 第36-39页 |
| ·Causativity of Event Structure: Wierzbicka’s Approach | 第36-38页 |
| ·Causation in Accomplishments | 第38页 |
| ·Direct and Indirect Causations | 第38-39页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR CONCLUSIONS | 第39-42页 |
| ·THE TYPOLOGY OF EVENT STRUCTURES REPRESENTED BY CHINESE ADJECTIVES | 第39页 |
| ·THE LIMITATIONS OF THE TYPOLOGY | 第39-40页 |
| ·IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS OF EVENT STRUCTURES | 第40-42页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第42-43页 |
| REFERENCES | 第43-46页 |
