| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-11页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第11-14页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCING UNACCUSATIVITY | 第16-57页 |
| ·Preliminaries | 第16-21页 |
| ·Wading Through the Terminology Jungle | 第21-46页 |
| ·Transitive and intransitive verbs | 第22-25页 |
| ·UH and the unaccusative-unergative nomenclature | 第25-32页 |
| ·Unaccusative diagnostics and unaccusative mismatches | 第32-38页 |
| ·Deep and surface unaccusativity | 第38-39页 |
| ·Ergativity,split intransitivity and related notions | 第39-45页 |
| ·Burzio's ergativity:unergative-ergative distinction | 第39-43页 |
| ·Split intransitivity | 第43-45页 |
| ·Summary | 第45-46页 |
| ·Theoretical Homeland for the Present Study | 第46-55页 |
| ·Introducing the cognitive constructional approach to language | 第46-53页 |
| ·Why a cognitive-constructional approach to unaccusative phenomena? | 第53-55页 |
| ·Structural Organization of This dissertation | 第55-57页 |
| Chapter Two TRANSITIVE-SCHEMA-BASED ACCOUNTS OF UNACCUSATIVE PHENOMENA | 第57-109页 |
| ·Introduction | 第57-58页 |
| ·UAH:Homomorphism between Semantics and Syntax | 第58-65页 |
| ·Syntactic Approaches to Unaccusativity | 第65-81页 |
| ·Rosen 1984:the mystery of laying the initial stratum | 第66-71页 |
| ·Projectionist accounts:Burzio 1986 and Chomsky 1995 | 第71-79页 |
| ·Summary of the syntactic approaches | 第79-81页 |
| ·Semantic Approaches to Unaccusativity | 第81-98页 |
| ·Dowty 1991:Proto-roles and intransitives | 第82-88页 |
| ·Van Valin's 1990 account within the RRG framework | 第88-94页 |
| ·Levin & Rappaport Hovav's 1995 lexical-semantic approaches | 第94-97页 |
| ·Summary of the semantic approaches | 第97-98页 |
| ·Weighing against the Transitive-schema-based Accounts | 第98-107页 |
| ·Recapitulating the transitive-schema-based accounts | 第98-103页 |
| ·General weakness of the transitive-schema-based accounts | 第103-105页 |
| ·The road ahead:overt constructions with accessible semantic constraints. | 第105-107页 |
| ·Summary | 第107-109页 |
| Chapter Three GRILLING THE UNACCUSATIVE PHENOMENA IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE | 第109-163页 |
| ·Introduction | 第109-110页 |
| ·Resultatives and the Unaccusative-unergative Distinction | 第110-128页 |
| ·Definition of the resultatives | 第110-112页 |
| ·UH-based accounts of split intransitivity in resultatives | 第112-116页 |
| ·DOR and the relevance of resultatives to unaccusativity in English | 第113-114页 |
| ·The relevance of resultatives to unaccusativity in Chinese | 第114-116页 |
| ·Problems with the unaccusative-unergative distinction in resultatives | 第116-120页 |
| ·A Constructional account of resultatives | 第120-127页 |
| ·Resultatives as independent constructions with semantic constraints | 第120-122页 |
| ·The licensing of different types of resultatives | 第122-127页 |
| ·Summary | 第127-128页 |
| ·Existentials and the Unaccusative Restriction | 第128-152页 |
| ·Structural templates of existentials in English and Chinese | 第128-133页 |
| ·Possible types of verbs in existentials | 第133-136页 |
| ·Unaccusative verbs and passivized verbs | 第133-134页 |
| ·Unergative verbs found with the existentials | 第134-135页 |
| ·Transitive verbs | 第135-136页 |
| ·Summary | 第136页 |
| ·Existential construction and the unaccusative-unergative distinctions | 第136-152页 |
| ·Unaccusative accounts based on the generative framework | 第137-142页 |
| ·A constructional account of the existentials | 第142-151页 |
| ·Summary | 第151-152页 |
| ·Pseudo-passive construction and the Unergative Restriction | 第152-161页 |
| ·RelG's account of the pseudo-passives | 第153-155页 |
| ·Constructional account of pseudo-passives in English and Chinese | 第155-161页 |
| ·Summary | 第161-163页 |
| Chapter Four TRANSITIVITY ALTERNATIONS | 第163-201页 |
| ·Introduction | 第163-165页 |
| ·Syntactic and Lexical Semantic Factors in Transitivity Alternation | 第165-181页 |
| ·Syntactic features of causative-inchoative alternations | 第165-168页 |
| ·Lexical semantic features of causative alternations | 第168-180页 |
| ·Change of state and selectional requirements | 第169-172页 |
| ·Control and independent activity | 第172-174页 |
| ·Causation and spontaneous occurrence | 第174-180页 |
| ·Summary | 第180-181页 |
| ·Towards a Cognitive Account of Transitivity Alternations | 第181-196页 |
| ·ICMs for conceptualizing transitive sentences | 第182-184页 |
| ·Conceptual A/D layering and causative alternations | 第184-189页 |
| ·A cognitive account of transitivity alternations | 第189-196页 |
| ·Detransitivization of transitive verbs | 第189-192页 |
| ·Causativization of intransitive verbs | 第192-196页 |
| ·Transitivity Alternations in Chinese | 第196-200页 |
| ·Summary | 第200-201页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUDING REMARKS | 第201-207页 |
| ·Achievements | 第201-202页 |
| ·Implications of the Current Study | 第202-204页 |
| ·Further Issues | 第204-207页 |
| REFERENCES | 第207-219页 |
