| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One A Review of the Studies of Raising Construction | 第12-28页 |
| ·The English Raising Predicates and Construction | 第12-19页 |
| ·Raising Vs. Control | 第12-17页 |
| ·The Case-Approach to Raising | 第17-19页 |
| ·Studies of Chinese Raising Predicates and Construction | 第19-28页 |
| ·The Properties of Chinese Raising Predicates | 第19-22页 |
| ·Confusing Items: shi ‘be’ and you ‘have’ | 第22-25页 |
| ·Tsao’s Topicalization Analysis of Chinese Raising Construction | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Two Raising: Characteristics and Classification | 第28-42页 |
| ·Raising Predicates VS. S-level Adverbs | 第28-33页 |
| ·Classification of Chinese Raising Predicates | 第33-37页 |
| ·Distributional Characteristics of Raising Predicates | 第37-42页 |
| Chapter Three Derivation of Raising Construction: a Minimalist Approach | 第42-60页 |
| ·Some Basic Notions Within Minimalist Framework | 第42-47页 |
| ·The VP-internal Subject Hypothesis and VP Shell | 第43-45页 |
| ·The Checking Theory | 第45-46页 |
| ·The Core Functional Categories | 第46页 |
| ·EPP and P-features | 第46-47页 |
| ·Syntactic Position of Raising Predicates | 第47-49页 |
| ·Derivation of Chinese Raising Construction | 第49-60页 |
| Chapter Four AComparison Between Chinese and English Raising Construction | 第60-73页 |
| ·Similarities | 第60-64页 |
| ·The Properties of Raising Predicates | 第60-61页 |
| ·The Derivation Process | 第61-64页 |
| ·Differences | 第64-73页 |
| ·EPP Conformance | 第64-70页 |
| ·Object Raising in Chinese | 第70-73页 |
| Conclusion | 第73-75页 |
| Works Cited | 第75-79页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第79-81页 |
| Appendix: Chinese Examples | 第81-89页 |
| Informative Abstract in Chinese | 第89-92页 |
| Résumé and Publications since Entering the Program | 第92页 |
