| Acknowledgement | 第1-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| Abstract | 第10-11页 |
| Table of Contents | 第11-15页 |
| Introduction | 第15-18页 |
| Chapter One Approaches to Eventuality: A Review | 第18-55页 |
| ·Introduction | 第18页 |
| ·The Vendlerian Aspectual Classification of Verbs | 第18-32页 |
| ·General Introduction to Vendler's Aspectual Classes of Verbs | 第19-24页 |
| ·States | 第24-25页 |
| ·Activities | 第25-26页 |
| ·Accomplishments | 第26-27页 |
| ·Achievements | 第27-30页 |
| ·Summary | 第30-32页 |
| ·Lexical Decompotional Approach to Eventuality | 第32-47页 |
| ·Generative Semantic Approach | 第32-33页 |
| ·Categorical Approach | 第33-35页 |
| ·Lexical Syntactic Approach | 第35-37页 |
| ·Syntactic Approach | 第37-47页 |
| ·Huang (1991,1997) | 第38-39页 |
| ·Lin(2001) | 第39-43页 |
| ·Our Comments on Huang and Lin | 第43-47页 |
| ·The Chomskyan Light Verb | 第47-53页 |
| ·The Origin of the Chomskyan Light Verb | 第48-49页 |
| ·The Development of the Chomskyan Light Verb | 第49-51页 |
| ·Semantically Richer Light Verbs | 第51-53页 |
| ·Bowers'(1993)Pr | 第52-53页 |
| ·Kratzer's (1996) Voice | 第53页 |
| ·Summary | 第53-55页 |
| Chapter Two The Eventuality and the Lexical Aspect in MC | 第55-95页 |
| ·Introduction | 第55页 |
| ·Eventuality and Aspectual Classes of Verbs in MC | 第55-66页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Eventuality in MC | 第56-58页 |
| ·The Early Period | 第56页 |
| ·The Modern Period | 第56-57页 |
| ·Summary | 第57-58页 |
| ·Aspectual Classes of Verbs in MC | 第58-66页 |
| ·Previous Studies | 第58-59页 |
| ·Our Classification | 第59-60页 |
| ·The Event Structure of Verbs | 第60-65页 |
| ·Summary | 第65-66页 |
| ·The Eventuality of State in MC | 第66-88页 |
| ·Stative Adjectives in MC | 第66-75页 |
| ·The Properties of Adjectives in MC | 第66-70页 |
| ·Gradable Adjectives | 第70-72页 |
| ·Non-gradabte Adjectives | 第72-73页 |
| ·The Contrast between Gradable and Non-gradable Adjectives | 第73-74页 |
| ·The Event Structure of Adjectives | 第74页 |
| ·Summary | 第74-75页 |
| ·Stative Verbs in MC | 第75-88页 |
| ·The Classification of Verbs in MC | 第75-79页 |
| ·The Properties of Stative Verbs in MC | 第79-83页 |
| ·The Event Structure of Stative Verbs | 第83-85页 |
| ·Unaccusative Verbs in MC | 第85-88页 |
| ·The Eventuality of Activity | 第88-94页 |
| ·The Properties of Activity | 第88-91页 |
| ·The Event Structure of Activity | 第91-94页 |
| ·Summary | 第94页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第94-95页 |
| Chapter Three The Eventuality of Achievement in Mandarin Chinese | 第95-144页 |
| ·Introduction | 第95页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Achievement in MC | 第95-97页 |
| ·Verbs of Achievement in English and MC—a Comparison | 第97-100页 |
| ·Achievement or Accomplishment? | 第100-107页 |
| ·Achievement vs. Accomplishment in English | 第101-104页 |
| ·Achievement vs. Accomplishment in MC | 第104-107页 |
| ·Achievement and Aspect Markers | 第107-142页 |
| ·Achievement and Aspect Marker le | 第107-113页 |
| ·An Introduction to Aspect Marker le | 第108-111页 |
| ·Deriving Achievement with le | 第111-112页 |
| ·Summary | 第112-113页 |
| ·Achievement and Aspect Marker dao | 第113-121页 |
| ·An Introduction to Aspect Marker dao | 第113-114页 |
| ·Deriving Achievement with dao | 第114-115页 |
| ·Interaction between dao and Other Aspect Markers | 第115-120页 |
| ·Summary | 第120-121页 |
| ·Achievement and Aspect Marker zhao | 第121-126页 |
| ·An Introduction to Aspect Marker zhao | 第121-122页 |
| ·Deriving Achievement with zhao | 第122-123页 |
| ·Interaction of zhao with Other Aspect Markers | 第123-125页 |
| ·Summary | 第125-126页 |
| ·Achievement and Aspect Marker qilai | 第126-142页 |
| ·An Introduction to Aspect Marker qilai | 第126-129页 |
| ·Adjectives+qilai | 第129-135页 |
| ·Verbs+qilai | 第135-142页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第142-144页 |
| Chapter Four The Eventuality of Accomplishment in Mandarin Chinese | 第144-203页 |
| ·Introduction | 第144页 |
| ·Accomplishment and Aspect Markers | 第144-154页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Accomplishment and Aspect Markers | 第145-147页 |
| ·Accomplishment and le | 第147-152页 |
| ·Accomplishment and Other Aspect Markers | 第152-153页 |
| ·Summary | 第153-154页 |
| ·Accomplishment and Resultative Verbal Constructions (RVCs) in MC | 第154-201页 |
| ·The Classification of RVCs | 第154-158页 |
| ·The Types of Literal RVCs | 第158-161页 |
| ·The Types of English Resultative Constructions (ERCs) | 第161-164页 |
| ·The Event Structure of RVCs | 第164-201页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the Derivation of RVCs | 第165-173页 |
| ·Accomplishment Event Structure Approach—Our Proposal | 第173-187页 |
| ·The Ambiguity of Accomplishments | 第187-195页 |
| ·The Accomplishment Event Structure Approach to DE Constructions | 第195-197页 |
| ·The Accomplishment Event Structure Approach to ERCs | 第197-201页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第201-203页 |
| Chapter Five Concluding Remarks | 第203-205页 |
| Appendix | 第205-207页 |
| Bibliography | 第207-221页 |