| 中文摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-10页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第10-11页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第11-15页 |
| ·BACKGROUND AND QUESTIONS OF THE STUDY | 第11-13页 |
| ·OBJECTIVES AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY | 第13页 |
| ·METHODOLOGY AND DATA RESOURCES | 第13-14页 |
| ·ORGANIZATION OF THE THESIS | 第14-15页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第15-25页 |
| ·DEFINITIONS OF RELEVANT TERMS | 第15-18页 |
| ·Definition of voice | 第15-16页 |
| ·Definition of passive | 第16页 |
| ·Classification of Mandarin and English passive construction | 第16-18页 |
| ·OVERVIEW OF PREVIOUS STUDY ON PASSIVE CONSTRUCTION | 第18-23页 |
| ·From syntactic perspective | 第18-20页 |
| ·From semantic and pragmatic perspective | 第20-21页 |
| ·From perspective of cognitive linguistics | 第21-22页 |
| ·Comparative study of Mandarin and English passive construction | 第22-23页 |
| ·COMMENTARY | 第23页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第23-25页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION: INFORMATION DEPENDENCY LANGUAGE MODEL | 第25-35页 |
| ·INFORMATION DEPENDENCY MODEL (IDM) | 第25-28页 |
| ·INFORMATION DEPENDENCY LANGUAGE MODEL (IDLM) | 第28-33页 |
| ·The primary unit of language | 第28-29页 |
| ·Standard tagmeme | 第29页 |
| ·Derivational tagmeme and complex sentence | 第29-31页 |
| ·Pragmatic motivation for tagmeme transformation | 第31-33页 |
| ·IDLM ANALYSIS OF MANDARIN UNMARKED PASSIVE CONSTRUCTION | 第33-34页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第34-35页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND CHINESE PASSIVES BASED ON IDLM | 第35-55页 |
| ·IDLM FORMALIZATION OF CHINESE PASSIVE CONSTRUCTION | 第35-45页 |
| ·IDLM formalization of normative passive construction in Chinese | 第35-38页 |
| ·IDLM formalization of Chinese non-normative passive construction | 第38-45页 |
| ·IDLM FORMALIZATION OF ENGLISH PASSIVE CONSTRUCTION | 第45-49页 |
| ·IDLM formalization of “be + V-en” passive construction | 第45-48页 |
| ·IDLM formalization of “get +V-en” passive construction | 第48-49页 |
| ·COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHINESE PASSIVE CONSTRUCTION AND ENGLISH PASSIVE CONSTRUCTION | 第49-52页 |
| ·From the syntactic aspect | 第49-51页 |
| ·From the semantic aspect | 第51-52页 |
| ·From pragmatic aspect | 第52页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第52-55页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第55-57页 |
| ·MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE STUDY | 第55-56页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER WORKS | 第56-57页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第57-59页 |
| REFERENCES | 第59-63页 |
| APPENDIX | 第63-79页 |
| A. SEMANTIC FEATURES OF CHINESE PASSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS RETRIEVED FROM CCL | 第63-71页 |
| B. SEMANTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH PASSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS RETRIEVED FROM COCA | 第71-79页 |
| C. ARTICLES PUBLISHED DURING M.A. STUDIES | 第79页 |
