| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-19页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第19-26页 |
| ·THEME | 第19-22页 |
| ·METHODS | 第22-23页 |
| ·BREAKTHROUGHS | 第23-24页 |
| ·TERMINOLOGY | 第24-25页 |
| ·ARRANGEMENT | 第25-26页 |
| CHAPTER TWO PREVIOUS STUDIES ON SSCS AND ERGATIVITY | 第26-64页 |
| ·PREVIOUS STUDIES ON CHINESE SSCS | 第26-51页 |
| ·Definitions of SSCs in Chinese | 第26-29页 |
| ·Ba construction | 第29-35页 |
| ·Bei construction | 第35-42页 |
| ·Verb-copy construction | 第42-43页 |
| ·Semi-inverse, inverse constructions | 第43-47页 |
| ·Topic construction | 第47-49页 |
| ·Summary and further research | 第49-51页 |
| ·A SURVEY OF ERGATIVITY STUDIES | 第51-62页 |
| ·Concepts concerning egativity | 第51-57页 |
| ·Previous studies on ergativity | 第57-61页 |
| ·Limitations and inspirations | 第61-62页 |
| ·DIACHRONIC ERGATIVIZATION | 第62-64页 |
| CHAPTER THREE LINGUISTIC FOUNDATIONS OF AN ERGATIVE EXPLANATION FOR SSCS | 第64-104页 |
| ·TYPOLOGY OF CHINESE | 第64-68页 |
| ·ERGATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF VERB SYSTEM | 第68-96页 |
| ·Definition of ergative foundations of verb system | 第68-69页 |
| ·Monosyllabic myth and restricted ergativity in Old Chinese | 第69-70页 |
| ·Restrected ergativity on monosyllabic verbs in Modern Chinese | 第70-78页 |
| ·Ergative foundation of complicated verb forms | 第78-96页 |
| ·Summary | 第96页 |
| ·TENSE-ASPECT FOUNDATION OF ERGATIVITY IN CHINESE | 第96-103页 |
| ·Bhat’s classification of language types | 第97-98页 |
| ·Four criteria of language prominence justified in terms of aspect | 第98-100页 |
| ·Prominence of aspect in Chinese | 第100-103页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第103-104页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR ERGATIVE BEHAVIORS IN CHINESE SSCS | 第104-177页 |
| ·DENG SIYING’S ERGATIVIZATION APPROACH TO CHINESE BEI CONSTRUCTION | 第105-109页 |
| ·CRITERIA OF ASSESSING ERGATIVITY IN CHINESE SSCS | 第109-120页 |
| ·Embeddability of SSCs with subordinate clausal slots | 第110-114页 |
| ·Detransitivization status of the verb-predicate in an SSC | 第114-116页 |
| ·Affectedness status of the patient-object in an SSC | 第116-117页 |
| ·Leftward repositioning status of patient-objects and the positional change of agent-subjects | 第117-120页 |
| ·AN ANALYSIS OF ERGATIVE SYNTAX IN BA CONSTRUCTIONS | 第120-129页 |
| ·Embeddability of a ba construction in a subordinate clausal slot | 第123-126页 |
| ·Detransitivization status of the verb-predicates in ba constructions | 第126-127页 |
| ·Affectedness and leftward repositioning of patient-objects | 第127-129页 |
| ·AN ANALYSIS OF ERGATIVE SYNTAX IN VERB-COPY CONSTRUCTION | 第129-139页 |
| ·Embeddability of a verb-copy construction in a subordinate clausal slot | 第132-133页 |
| ·Detransitivization status of verb-predicates in verb-copy constructions | 第133-137页 |
| ·Affectedness and leftward positioning of patient-objects | 第137-139页 |
| ·AN ANALYSIS OF ERGATIVE BEHAVIORS IN A SEMI-INVERSE CONSTRUCTION | 第139-144页 |
| ·AN ANALYSIS OF ERGATIVE BEHAVIORS IN AN INVERSE CONSTRUCTION | 第144-148页 |
| ·AN ANALYSIS OF ERGATIVE BEBAVIORS IN AN SSC-RELATED TOPIC CONSTRUCTION. | 第148-155页 |
| ·Classification of topic structures | 第148-153页 |
| ·An examination of ergative syntax in an SSC-related topic construction | 第153-155页 |
| ·AN ANALYSIS OF ERGATIVE BEHAVIORS IN BEI CONSTRUCTION | 第155-158页 |
| ·HIERARCHY OF ERGATIVITY IN SSCS IN CHINESE | 第158-162页 |
| ·Summary of the ergative behaviors in SSCs | 第158-160页 |
| ·Hierarchy of ergativity in SSCs | 第160-162页 |
| ·A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF ERGATIVITY IN SSCS | 第162-168页 |
| ·A REINTERPRETATION OF BEI AND BA | 第168-175页 |
| ·A reinterpretation of bei | 第168-172页 |
| ·A reinterpretation of ba | 第172-175页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第175-177页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE ACCUSATIVE-ERGATIVE SHIFT AND ITS SYNTACTIC EFFECT--WITH ENGLISH AS A CONTRAST | 第177-200页 |
| ·INTRODUCTION | 第177页 |
| ·ISSUES | 第177-180页 |
| ·A COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSITIVE VERBS IN ENGLISH | 第180-187页 |
| ·Preliminary | 第180-182页 |
| ·Transitive verb and its semantic structure in English and Chinese | 第182-187页 |
| ·A COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSITIVE VERBS IN CHINESE | 第187-194页 |
| ·Hidden Res in Old Chinese | 第187-188页 |
| ·Explicit Res in Middle Chinese | 第188-189页 |
| ·Explicit Res in Modern Chinese | 第189-190页 |
| ·Hierarchy of ergativity in SSCs revisited | 第190-194页 |
| ·ACCUSATIVE-ERGATIVE SHIFT IN SSCS AND ITS SYNTACTIC EFFECT | 第194-198页 |
| ·Accusative-prominent typology of English | 第194-195页 |
| ·Syntactic effect of accusative-ergative shift | 第195-198页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第198-200页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第200-204页 |
| ·MAIN FINDINGS | 第200-202页 |
| ·IMPLICATIONS | 第202-203页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS | 第203页 |
| ·TOPICS FOR FUTURE STUDY | 第203-204页 |
| REFERENCES | 第204-211页 |
| GLOSSARY | 第211-221页 |
| PUBLICATIONS | 第221-223页 |
