| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| Abbreviation | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter Introduction | 第10-22页 |
| ·Chinese compounding System | 第10-11页 |
| ·Verb compounds in Chinese | 第11-18页 |
| ·Issues to be discussed | 第18-22页 |
| 2 The Distinction between Lexicon and Syntax:Chinese Splittable VN compounds | 第22-36页 |
| ·The Lexical Integrity Hypothesis | 第22-23页 |
| ·LIH as an inadequate condition for lexical item identification | 第23-28页 |
| ·Splittable VN compounds in Chinese | 第28-36页 |
| 3 Syntactic Consequences of Noun Incorporation | 第36-46页 |
| ·Mithun’s Classification of NI | 第36-40页 |
| ·Type one NI | 第36-38页 |
| ·Type two NI | 第38页 |
| ·Type three NI | 第38-39页 |
| ·Type four NI | 第39-40页 |
| ·Three Types of NI in Chinese | 第40-46页 |
| ·Type one NI: Lexical Compounding NI | 第40-42页 |
| ·Type Two NI | 第42-43页 |
| ·Type four NI: Classificatory NI | 第43-46页 |
| 4 Against a syntactic approach to Chinese compounding | 第46-62页 |
| ·Lexical approach | 第46-47页 |
| ·Syntactic approach | 第47-52页 |
| ·Baker’s incorporation theory | 第48-52页 |
| ·Against the syntactic approach | 第52-56页 |
| ·Subject Incorporation | 第53-54页 |
| ·Adjunct Incorporation | 第54-56页 |
| ·Productivity | 第56页 |
| ·Chinese VNperipheral object compounding and their derivation | 第56-58页 |
| ·Chinese Vlight N compounding and VNlight compounding | 第58-62页 |
| Appendix | 第62-64页 |
| Reference | 第64-67页 |
