| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-25页 |
| ·The Objectives of the Study | 第12-17页 |
| ·The Literature Review of Patient-Subject Constructions Study | 第17-22页 |
| ·The Purpose of the Study | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter 2 The Patient-Subject Sentence as a Construction | 第25-46页 |
| ·The View on Patient-Subject Constructions | 第25-29页 |
| ·The Syntactic Features of Patient-Subject Constructions | 第29-36页 |
| ·Basic Structure of Patient-Subject Constructions in English | 第29-30页 |
| ·Basic Structure of Patient-Subject Constructions in Chinese | 第30-32页 |
| ·Passive-Participant Subject and Active Morphology | 第32-33页 |
| ·Tense and Aspect | 第33-36页 |
| ·Semantic Characteristics of Patient-Subject Constructions | 第36-44页 |
| ·The Feature of the Preverbal NP as Patient | 第36-39页 |
| ·The Status of the Preverbal NP as Subject | 第39-42页 |
| ·Covert Agent | 第42-44页 |
| ·Selectional Restrictions on Verbs in Patient-Subject Constructions | 第44-46页 |
| Chapter 3 A Theoretical Framework | 第46-58页 |
| ·Government and Binding Theory (GB) | 第46-48页 |
| ·Principles & Parameters Model | 第48-50页 |
| ·Theta Theory | 第50-53页 |
| ·Government Based Case Theory | 第53-56页 |
| ·NP-Movement | 第56-58页 |
| Chapter 4 Formation of Patient-Subject Constructions | 第58-90页 |
| ·Classifications of Verbs | 第60-63页 |
| ·Movement Hypothesis | 第63-65页 |
| ·The Formation Process of Patient-Subject Constructions (PSCs) | 第65-90页 |
| ·Short-Distance PSCs | 第66-77页 |
| ·Ergative-Type | 第66-71页 |
| ·Middle-Type | 第71-77页 |
| ·Complex Predicate PSCs | 第77-79页 |
| ·Long-Distance PSCs | 第79-84页 |
| ·Chomsky's Analysis of Tough Constructions | 第80-82页 |
| ·Reider's Analysis of Tough Constructions | 第82-83页 |
| ·Toward a Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Tough-Type PSCs | 第83-84页 |
| ·Issues Related to Topic | 第84-90页 |
| Chapter 5 Patient-Subject Constructions and Other Related Constructions | 第90-101页 |
| ·Patient-Subject Constructions & Passives | 第90-93页 |
| ·Patient-Subject Constructions & Middles | 第93-101页 |
| Conclusion | 第101-104页 |
| Notes | 第104-108页 |
| Bibliography | 第108-119页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第119-120页 |
| 攻读学位期间主要的研究成果 | 第120页 |
