| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-17页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第17-31页 |
| ·What This Dissertation Is about | 第17-20页 |
| ·The Goal of This Dissertation | 第20-21页 |
| ·Some Linguistic Terminologies Involved in This Dissertation | 第21-29页 |
| ·Methodology Used in This Dissertation | 第29页 |
| ·The Organization of This Dissertation | 第29-31页 |
| CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO ARGUMENT STRUCTURE ALTERNATIONS WITH RESPECT TO LOCATIVE VERBS | 第31-72页 |
| ·Introduction | 第31-32页 |
| ·Linking Problem | 第32-37页 |
| ·Some Previous Approaches to the Locative Alternation | 第37-59页 |
| ·A Brief Overview of the Various Accounts of the Locative Alternation | 第37-44页 |
| ·Some Lexical-semantic Representation Accounts of the Locative Alternation | 第44-59页 |
| ·Rappaport Hovav & Levin’s (1988) Predicate Decomposition Approach as a Starting Point | 第44-45页 |
| ·Pinker’s (1989) Lexical Rule Approach | 第45-54页 |
| ·Levin & Rappaport’s Event Structure Approach: a modified lexical-semantic representation account | 第54-59页 |
| ·Some Accounts of the Causative Alternation | 第59-72页 |
| ·Classifications of the Causative Alternation | 第59-64页 |
| ·A Brief Overview of Some Analyses of the Causative Alternation | 第64-66页 |
| ·Causativization and Decausativization | 第66-72页 |
| CHAPTER 3 ENGLISH AND CHINESE LOCATIVE VERBS | 第72-89页 |
| ·Introduction | 第72-73页 |
| ·Some Concepts of Spatial Relations Concerning Locative Verbs | 第73-76页 |
| ·Various Classifications of Locative Verbs | 第76-82页 |
| ·Cook's Case Grammar Matrix | 第76-77页 |
| ·Longacre's Verb Classification | 第77-79页 |
| ·Brinkmann’s Classification of Locative Verbs | 第79页 |
| ·Qi Hu-yang’s Classification of Chinese Verbs in Terms of Spatial Relations | 第79-80页 |
| ·Transitive Aspect of Locative Verbs | 第80-82页 |
| ·The Delimitation of the Chinese Locative Verbs | 第82-84页 |
| ·Chinese Locative Verbs | 第84-86页 |
| ·A Brief Comparison between English and Chinese Locative Verbs | 第86-87页 |
| ·Summary | 第87-89页 |
| CHAPTER 4 THE LOCATIVE ALTERNATION IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE | 第89-141页 |
| ·Introduction | 第89-91页 |
| ·How English Locative Verbs Alternate in the Locative Alternation | 第91-93页 |
| ·Types of the Locative Alternation | 第93-96页 |
| ·Juffs’s Chinese Argument Structures Revisited with Respect to the Locative Alternation | 第96-101页 |
| ·Juffs’s Figure Frame | 第96-98页 |
| ·Juff’s Ground Frame | 第98-99页 |
| ·A Discussion of the Status of the With and YONG (Is it with-theme or with-instrument) | 第99-101页 |
| ·Chinese Ground Frame Again | 第101-112页 |
| ·The Object Affectedness Linking Rule | 第101-104页 |
| ·BA and Affected Participant | 第104页 |
| ·BA (NPloc±localizer)gr Construction | 第104-108页 |
| ·A proposed Chinese Ground Frame | 第108-112页 |
| ·An Experiment on Chinese Ground Frame Argument Structures | 第112-118页 |
| ·A Comparison of the Locative Alternation between English and Chinese | 第118-138页 |
| ·Content-oriented Verb or Into/Onto Verbs | 第119-129页 |
| ·Alternating Content-oriented Verbs (Alternating Figure Frame Verbs) | 第119-126页 |
| ·Non-alternating Content-oriented Verbs (Non Alternating Figure Frame Verbs) | 第126-129页 |
| ·Container-oriented Verb or With Verbs | 第129-138页 |
| ·Alternating Container-oriented Verbs (Alternating Ground Frame Verbs) | 第129-133页 |
| ·Non-alternating Container-oriented Verbs (Non Alternating Ground Frame Verbs) | 第133-138页 |
| ·Summary | 第138-141页 |
| CHAPTER 5 THE CAUSATIVE ALTERNATION IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE | 第141-165页 |
| ·Introduction | 第141页 |
| ·How the Alternating Pair Alternate in the Causative Alternation | 第141-146页 |
| ·The Alternating Pair | 第141-142页 |
| ·Unaccusative vs Unergative Verbs | 第142-143页 |
| ·External vs. Internal Causation | 第143-146页 |
| ·The Causative Constructions | 第146-149页 |
| ·A Comparison of the Causative Alternation between English and Chinese | 第149-163页 |
| ·Break Type Verbs in English and Chinese | 第149-154页 |
| ·Roll Type Verbs in English and Chinese | 第154-160页 |
| ·An Experiment on Chinese Roll Type Verbs | 第160页 |
| ·Run (or Gallop) Type Verbs in English and Chinese | 第160-163页 |
| ·Summary | 第163-165页 |
| CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION | 第165-169页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第169-184页 |
| APPENDIXES | 第184-191页 |
