| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-18页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review | 第18-30页 |
| ·Typological Account | 第18-21页 |
| ·Transformational-Generative Grammar Account | 第21-26页 |
| ·Functional Grammar Account | 第26-28页 |
| ·Cognitive Grammar Account | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Framework | 第30-44页 |
| ·The Unaccusative Hypothesis | 第30-33页 |
| ·Burzio's Generalization | 第33-36页 |
| ·Uniform Theta-Assignment Hypothesis | 第36-38页 |
| ·VP-Shell Analysis | 第38-44页 |
| Chapter 3 Syntactic Analysis of English and Chinese Ergative Verbs | 第44-89页 |
| ·Ergative Verbs and Unaccusative Verbs | 第44-50页 |
| ·Broad and Narrow Senses of Ergative Verbs | 第45-48页 |
| ·Surface Unaccusativity and Deep Unaccusativity | 第48-50页 |
| ·Transitivity of Ergative Verbs | 第50-66页 |
| ·Morphological Derivation | 第51-53页 |
| ·Derivational Direction of English Ergative Verbs | 第53-61页 |
| ·Intransitivity to Transitivity | 第53-56页 |
| ·Transitivity to Intransitivity | 第56-61页 |
| ·Derivational Direction of Chinese Ergative Verbs | 第61-66页 |
| ·Syntactic Similarities between English and Chinese | 第61-62页 |
| ·Derivational Direction of Chinese Ergative Pairs | 第62-66页 |
| ·Syntactic Analysis of Ergative Alternation | 第66-72页 |
| ·Syntactic Operation of Ergative Alternation | 第66-69页 |
| ·Case Assignment of Ergative Intransitives | 第69-72页 |
| ·Case Assignment in English | 第69-71页 |
| ·Case Assignment in Chinese | 第71-72页 |
| ·Syntactic Properties of Ergative Verbs | 第72-75页 |
| ·Comparison of Ergative Constructions and Other Syntactic Constructions | 第75-89页 |
| ·Ergative Constructions and Passive Constructions | 第76-82页 |
| ·Ergative Constructions and Middle Constructions | 第82-89页 |
| Chapter 4 Semantic Analysis of English and Chinese Ergative Verbs | 第89-130页 |
| ·Semantic-Syntactic Interface | 第89-92页 |
| ·Determining Factors of English Ergative Verbs | 第92-106页 |
| ·Change of State | 第92-96页 |
| ·Agentivity | 第96-99页 |
| ·External vs.Internal Causation | 第99-102页 |
| ·English Verbs of Existence and Appearance | 第102-106页 |
| ·Semantic Properties of Chinese Ergative Verbs | 第106-122页 |
| ·Classification of Chinese Ergative Verbs | 第106-109页 |
| ·Determining Factors of Chinese Ergative Verbs | 第109-110页 |
| ·V-R Compounds in Chinese | 第110-112页 |
| ·Ergative Alternations and Passives | 第112-116页 |
| ·Verbs of Body Movement | 第116-117页 |
| ·Adjectives of State | 第117-119页 |
| ·Chinese Verbs of Existence and Appearance | 第119-122页 |
| ·Semantic Derivational Mechanism of Ergative Verbs | 第122-127页 |
| ·Lexical Derivation | 第122-124页 |
| ·Post-lexical Derivation | 第124-127页 |
| ·Aspectual Properties of Ergative Verbs | 第127-130页 |
| Conclusion | 第130-135页 |
| Notes | 第135-139页 |
| Bibliography | 第139-151页 |
| Appendix | 第151-154页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第154-155页 |
| 攻读学位期间主要研究成果 | 第155页 |
