| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Rationale of the study | 第11-13页 |
| ·Objectives of the study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-35页 |
| ·Arguments and adjuncts | 第15-18页 |
| ·Morphological marking | 第16-17页 |
| ·Semantic function | 第17-18页 |
| ·Verbal underspecification | 第18-21页 |
| ·Relevance theory | 第21-35页 |
| ·Cognitive environment and mutual manifestness | 第22-25页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential communication | 第25-26页 |
| ·Dynamic view of context | 第26-28页 |
| ·Contextual effects and processing effort | 第28-30页 |
| ·Principles of relevance | 第30-35页 |
| Chapter Three Syntactic Approaches to A in SVA and Their Demerits | 第35-38页 |
| ·The Ad-verb hypothesis | 第35-36页 |
| ·The argument-adjunct hypothesis | 第36-37页 |
| ·The demerits of these syntactic approaches | 第37-38页 |
| Chapter Four Pragmatic Function of A in SVA | 第38-59页 |
| ·Verbal underspecification and cognitive environment | 第38-39页 |
| ·The function of adverbials in contextual enrichment | 第39-49页 |
| ·Concepts relating to meaning | 第40-43页 |
| ·Contextual enrichment in the communication process | 第43-48页 |
| ·Adverbials as resource | 第48-49页 |
| ·The inferential mechanism of the underspecified verbs in SVA sentences | 第49-52页 |
| ·The inferential process | 第49-50页 |
| ·The principle of pragmatic inference | 第50-51页 |
| ·The role of the adverbials in the inferential mechanism | 第51-52页 |
| ·From enrichment to concepts | 第52-57页 |
| ·The idea of concepts in relevance theory | 第52-54页 |
| ·Concept formation of the underspecified verbs in SVA sentences | 第54-57页 |
| ·The process of interpreting the underspecified verbs in SVA sentences | 第57-59页 |
| Chapter Five Interaction Between Syntax and Pragmatics in the Interpretation of SVA Sentences | 第59-65页 |
| ·The model of utterance interpretation | 第59-62页 |
| ·Pragmatic and syntactic obligatoriness of A in SVA | 第62-65页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第65-68页 |
| ·Summary of the findings | 第65-66页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第66-67页 |
| ·Limitations and prospects for future research | 第67-68页 |
| References | 第68-70页 |
