| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| CONTENTS | 第10-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE General Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| CHAPTER TWO Review of Previous Studies | 第15-25页 |
| ·Introductory Words | 第15-16页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第16-22页 |
| ·The Movement Approach | 第16-22页 |
| ·The Base-Generation Approach | 第22页 |
| ·Comments on the Previous Studies | 第22-23页 |
| ·Summary | 第23-25页 |
| CHAPTER THREE Our Hypothesis:The Possessor Is not a Subject | 第25-31页 |
| ·Introductory Words | 第25页 |
| ·The Possessor Is Not an Internally-Moved Subject | 第25-28页 |
| ·The Violation of the LBC | 第25-27页 |
| ·The Case Problem | 第27-28页 |
| ·The Unreasonable Disappearance of the Genitive Case Marker 'de' | 第28页 |
| ·The Possessor Is Not an Externally-Merged Subject | 第28-30页 |
| ·Summary | 第30-31页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR Our Assumption:The PSPO Sentence Is a Topic Sentence | 第31-45页 |
| ·Introductory Words | 第31页 |
| ·The Topic Position in a Sentence | 第31-34页 |
| ·The Topic Sentence in Mandarin Chinese | 第34-44页 |
| ·The Definition of the Topic | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Structure of the Topic Sentence in Mandarin Chinese | 第35-41页 |
| ·Our Analysis of the PSPO Sentence | 第41-44页 |
| ·Summary | 第44-45页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE The Generating Process of the PSPO Sentence | 第45-57页 |
| ·Introductory Words | 第45页 |
| ·The Theoretical Framework:the Minimalist Inquiries | 第45-49页 |
| ·The Faculty of Language and the Performance Systems | 第45-46页 |
| ·The Universal Grammar and the Legibility Conditions | 第46-47页 |
| ·Merge,Agree and Move and the Core Functional Categories CFCs | 第47页 |
| ·Uninterpretable Features and Unvalued Features | 第47-48页 |
| ·The Phase Theory | 第48-49页 |
| ·The Generating Process of the PSPO Sentence | 第49-54页 |
| ·The Defects of the 'Dangling Topic' Hypothesis and the Evidence of the Topic Movement | 第49-51页 |
| ·The Derivation of the PSPO Sentence | 第51-54页 |
| ·The Semantic Interpretation of the PSPO Sentence #(?) | 第54页 |
| ·The Difference Between the PSPO Sentence and Other Similar Constructions | 第54-56页 |
| ·Summary | 第56-57页 |
| CHAPTER SIX Concluding Remarks | 第57-59页 |
| ·A Summary of the Whole Thesis | 第57-58页 |
| ·Limitations | 第58-59页 |
| REFERENCES | 第59-62页 |
