| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-8页 |
| Preface in Chinese | 第8-22页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第22-29页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Background | 第29-38页 |
| 2．1 Category Theory | 第29-31页 |
| 2．2 X-bar Theory | 第31-33页 |
| 2．3 Case Theory and Theta Theory | 第33-37页 |
| 2．3．1 Case Theory | 第34-35页 |
| 2．3．2 Theta Theory | 第35-37页 |
| 2．4 Summary | 第37-38页 |
| Chapter 3 Properties of the POSS-ING Constructions and Its Possible Syntactic Analyses | 第38-51页 |
| 3．1 Syntactic Properties of the POSS-ING Construction | 第38-43页 |
| 3．1．1 Syntactic Features of an NP | 第38-41页 |
| 3．1．1．1 Syntactic Distribution | 第38-39页 |
| 3．1．1．2 Containing Emphatic Own | 第39页 |
| 3．1．1．3 Subject-verb Agreement | 第39页 |
| 3．1．1．4 Subject-auxiliary Inversion | 第39-40页 |
| 3．1．1．5 Clefting and Topicalization | 第40页 |
| 3．1．1．6 Being Subject to NPC | 第40页 |
| 3．1．1．7 Pied-piping of WH-word | 第40-41页 |
| 3．1．1．8 Reference Properties | 第41页 |
| 3．1．2 Syntactic Features of a VP | 第41-42页 |
| 3．1．2．1 Taking Bare NP as Object | 第41-42页 |
| 3．1．2．2 Containing Verb-modifying Adverbs | 第42页 |
| 3．1．2．3 Disallowing Attributive Adjectival Modification | 第42页 |
| 3．1．3 Syntactic Features of Clauses | 第42-43页 |
| 3．1．3．1 Allowing Clausal Auxiliaries | 第42页 |
| 3．1．3．2 Allowing Clause-negating Particle NOT | 第42-43页 |
| 3．1．3．3 Disallowing Restrictive Relative Clause | 第43页 |
| 3．2 Possible Analysis of the POSS-ING Construction | 第43-50页 |
| 3．2．1 NP Analysis | 第43-44页 |
| 3．2．2 VP Analysis | 第44-45页 |
| 3．2．3 IP and CP Analysis | 第45-50页 |
| 3．2．3．1 IP Analysis | 第45-48页 |
| 3．2．3．2 CP Analysis | 第48-50页 |
| 3．3 Summary | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter 4 DP Analysis of the POSS-ING Construction | 第51-70页 |
| 4．1 Genitive Case and DP Hypothesis | 第51-56页 |
| 4．1．1 Genitive Case Revised | 第51-52页 |
| 4．1．2 Noun Phrases Revised and DP Hypothesis | 第52-54页 |
| 4．1．3 Assignment of Genitive Case in DPs | 第54-56页 |
| 4．2 The Syntactic Compatibility between D and V-ING | 第56-65页 |
| 4．2．1 Syntactic Properties of D | 第57-60页 |
| 4．2．1．1 The Elements under D | 第57-59页 |
| 4．2．1．2 The Selectional Features of D | 第59-60页 |
| 4．2．2 Syntactic Features of V-ING Constructions | 第60-65页 |
| 4．2．2．1 The Nominal Feature of the Verbal Affix-ING | 第61-64页 |
| 4．2．2．2 -ING Nominalization | 第64-65页 |
| 4．3 DP Analysis of the POSS-ING Construction | 第65-69页 |
| 4．3．1 The Making of the POSS-ING DP | 第65-66页 |
| 4．3．2 The Using of the DP Analysis of the POSS-ING Construction | 第66-69页 |
| 4．3．2．1 The License of Clausal Auxiliaries | 第67-68页 |
| 4．3．2．2 The License of Clause-negating Particle NOT | 第68-69页 |
| 4．4 Summary | 第69-70页 |
| Chapter 5 A Historical Argument for the DP Analysis of the POSS-ING | 第70-80页 |
| 5．1 One More Significance of D in PE | 第70-71页 |
| 5．2 A Diachronic Account for the D System | 第71-76页 |
| 5．2．1 The Absence of the D System in OE | 第71-74页 |
| 5．2．2 Binding of R-role of NP Argument in OE | 第74-76页 |
| 5．3 Historical Development of the POSS-ING | 第76-78页 |
| 5．3．1 The Absence of Gerund in OE | 第76-77页 |
| 5．3．2 The Emergence of the POSS-ING | 第77-78页 |
| 5．4 The Correlation between the Historical Development of D System and the POSS-ING | 第78-79页 |
| 5．5 Summary | 第79-80页 |
| Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks | 第80-82页 |
| Bibliography | 第82-83页 |
