| Acknowledgments | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 论文摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Chapter 1. Introduction | 第8-14页 |
| ·An Overview of Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar | 第8-9页 |
| ·The Study of Constraints and First Language Acquisition | 第9-10页 |
| ·The Studies of UG and Second Language Acquisition | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter 2. Syntactic and Semantic Properties of English Elliptical Constructions | 第14-22页 |
| ·Some Phenomena of Elliptical Constructions in Natural Language | 第14-15页 |
| ·H～ and H+ Elliptical Constructions in English | 第15-16页 |
| ·C-command Constraint in English H～ Elliptical Constructions | 第16-19页 |
| ·The Parallelism Constraint | 第19-22页 |
| Chapter 3. Investigation of Elliptical Constructions in SLA | 第22-30页 |
| ·Properties of Chinese Elliptical Constructions | 第22-27页 |
| ·Lack of H～ Ellipsis Structures | 第22-24页 |
| ·The Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC) | 第24-26页 |
| ·Adhering to the Parallelism Constraint | 第26-27页 |
| ·Logic Problem of L2 Acquisition in English Elliptical Constructions | 第27-30页 |
| Chapter 4. Experiment | 第30-40页 |
| ·Experimental Methodology | 第30-31页 |
| ·Subjects | 第31-32页 |
| ·Test Design | 第32-39页 |
| ·A Test Design on L2 Learners’Knowledge of the Parallelism Constraint | 第32-33页 |
| ·A Test Design on L2 Learners’Sensitivities to H～ Elliptical Constructions | 第33-34页 |
| ·A Test Design on L2 Learners’Sensitivities to H～ Elliptical Constructions with C-command Constraint | 第34-36页 |
| ·A Test Design on the Influence of L1 Knowledge of OPC on L2 Acquisition | 第36-39页 |
| ·Procedure | 第39-40页 |
| Chapter 5. Results and Discussions | 第40-58页 |
| ·Experimental Results | 第40-46页 |
| ·Results of Tests of the Structural Parallelism and the Referential Parallelism | 第40-41页 |
| ·Results of Tests of the Sensitivities to English H～ Elliptical Constructions | 第41-43页 |
| ·Results of Tests of C-command Constraint in H～ Elliptical Constructions | 第43-44页 |
| ·Results of Tests of OPC on English Elliptical Constructions | 第44-46页 |
| ·Discussions of the Test Results | 第46-54页 |
| ·Discussions of the Tests Results of the Parallelism Constraint | 第46-49页 |
| ·Discussions of the Sensitivities to English H～ Elliptical Constructions | 第49-50页 |
| ·Discussions of the C-command Constraint in H～ Elliptical Constructions | 第50-52页 |
| ·Discussions of Test Results of OPC | 第52-54页 |
| ·General Discussions | 第54-56页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| Appendix 1 | 第58-69页 |
| Appendix 2 | 第69-78页 |
| Appendix 3 | 第78-87页 |
| Bibliography | 第87-89页 |
