| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| 1.1 General Introduction to the Study | 第14-15页 |
| 1.2 Objectives and Necessity of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| 1.3 Organization of the Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-28页 |
| 2.1 Argument and Argument Realization | 第18-19页 |
| 2.2. Studies on Event Structure at Home and Abroad | 第19-22页 |
| 2.2.1 Studies on Event Structure Abroad | 第19-21页 |
| 2.2.2 Studies on Event Structure at Home | 第21-22页 |
| 2.3. Studies on COS Verbs at Home and Abroad | 第22-27页 |
| 2.3.1 Definition and Classification of COS Verbs | 第22-23页 |
| 2.3.2 Studies on English COS Verbs | 第23-25页 |
| 2.3.3 Studies on Chinese COS Verbs | 第25-26页 |
| 2.3.4 Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese COS Verbs | 第26-27页 |
| 2.4 Originality of the Research | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework: Event Structure Theory | 第28-40页 |
| 3.1 Generalized Semantic Roles | 第28-31页 |
| 3.1.1 Dowty's Proto-Role Approach | 第28-30页 |
| 3.1.2 Reference Grammar' Macroroles | 第30-31页 |
| 3.2 Three Conceptualizations of Event | 第31-36页 |
| 3.2.1 The Localist Approach | 第32-33页 |
| 3.2.2 The Aspectual Approach | 第33-35页 |
| 3.2.3 The Causative Approach | 第35-36页 |
| 3.3 Levin's Event Structure Theory | 第36-40页 |
| 3.3.1 Basic Components of Verb Meanings and Predicate Decomposition | 第36-38页 |
| 3.3.2 Event Structure of COS Verbs | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Four Research Design | 第40-43页 |
| 4.1 Research Questions | 第40页 |
| 4.2 Data Collection | 第40-42页 |
| 4.3 Procedures for Analysis | 第42-43页 |
| Chapter Five Results and Discussions | 第43-70页 |
| 5.1 Syntactic Behavior of English and Chinese Instantaneous and Non-instantaneous COS Verbs | 第43-63页 |
| 5.1.1 Syntactic Behavior of English and Chinese Instantaneous COS Verbs | 第43-53页 |
| 5.1.2 Syntactic Behavior of English and Chinese Non-instantaneous COS Verbs | 第53-60页 |
| 5.1.3 Comparison of Syntactic Behavior of Instantaneous and Non-instantaneous COS Verbs in English and in Chinese | 第60-63页 |
| 5.2 Discussion: Comparison Between English and Chinese COS Verbs on Their Semantic-Syntactic Interfaces | 第63-68页 |
| 5.2.1 Event Structure of English and Chinese COS Verbs | 第63-66页 |
| 5.2.2 Syntactic Mapping of Chinese and English COS Verbs | 第66-68页 |
| 5.3 Summary | 第68-70页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第70-73页 |
| 6.1 Summary of Major Findings | 第70-71页 |
| 6.2 Implications of the Study | 第71-72页 |
| 6.3 Limitations of the Study and Suggestions for Further Research | 第72-73页 |
| Works Cited | 第73-78页 |
| Publications | 第78页 |
