| 摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| Contents | 第10-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review | 第15-22页 |
| ·Introduction to S-to-S Raising Verbs and Syntactic Diagnostics | 第15-17页 |
| ·Studies on the Raising Verb | 第17-20页 |
| ·Theoretic Perspectives and Structure of the Thesis | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Framework | 第22-36页 |
| ·Theta Theory | 第23-27页 |
| ·Case Theory | 第27-29页 |
| ·Binding Theory | 第29-32页 |
| ·NP Movement | 第32-36页 |
| Chapter 3 The Diagnostics of the Subject-to-Subject Raising Verb | 第36-59页 |
| ·Traditional Feature Diagnostic | 第36-47页 |
| ·Assigning No Theta Role to the Matrix Subject | 第37-39页 |
| ·Accepting Expletive as the Matrix Subject | 第39-40页 |
| ·Accepting Idiomatic Subjects | 第40-42页 |
| ·The Complement Clause in Passivization Preserving the Original Semantic Meaning | 第42-46页 |
| ·Being Able to Be Stacked Recursively | 第46-47页 |
| ·Focalization Diagnostic | 第47-59页 |
| ·Pseudo-cleft | 第49-51页 |
| ·Interrogative Sentence---What-pattern and How-pattern | 第51-59页 |
| Chapter 4 Limitations of the Diagnostics and Possible Solutions tothe Limitations | 第59-79页 |
| ·Limitations of the Existing Diagnostics | 第59-74页 |
| ·Limitations of the Traditional Feature Diagnostic | 第60-67页 |
| ·Heavily Semantic Relying | 第61-65页 |
| ·The Uncertainty of the Expletives It/There | 第65-67页 |
| ·Limitations of the Focalization Diagnostic | 第67-74页 |
| ·Limitations of the TP Analysis | 第68-69页 |
| ·Revised Analysis of TP | 第69-74页 |
| ·Possible Solutions to the Limitations | 第74-79页 |
| ·Combination of Semantics and Syntax | 第74-75页 |
| ·Copular Features Analysis and Application | 第75-77页 |
| ·Supplement of Lexical Features in Lexicon | 第77-79页 |
| Conclusion | 第79-82页 |
| Notes | 第82-83页 |
| Bibliography | 第83-88页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第88-90页 |
| 攻读学位期间的主要研究成果 | 第90页 |
