| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-17页 |
| ·Preliminary remarks | 第9-11页 |
| ·Clarifications for EMC and CMC | 第11-14页 |
| ·Objectives | 第14页 |
| ·Proposals | 第14-15页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature review:generative approach | 第17-21页 |
| ·General issues:middles as a cross-linguistic Phenomenon | 第17-18页 |
| ·Specific Research:the middle construction in English and Chinese | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter 3 A brief introduction to the adopted theories:Construction Grammar and metonymy | 第21-31页 |
| ·General remarks | 第21-22页 |
| ·The concept of constructions | 第22-23页 |
| ·Construction Grammar | 第23-24页 |
| ·Views of Construction Grammar to syntax | 第24-25页 |
| ·The nature of verb meaning | 第25页 |
| ·The nature of construction meaning | 第25-26页 |
| ·The integration of verb and construction | 第26-27页 |
| ·Metonymy | 第27-28页 |
| ·Metonymic coercion | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter 4 The English Middle Construction | 第31-60页 |
| ·Introduction | 第31-32页 |
| ·The existence of the English middles as a construction | 第32-36页 |
| ·Conflicts between the inherent semantics of middle verbs and the construction interpretation | 第33-35页 |
| ·Non-derivational characteristics of EMC | 第35-36页 |
| ·General Properties of the EMC | 第36-49页 |
| ·The status of the grammatical subject | 第38-40页 |
| ·Non-eventivity | 第40-42页 |
| ·Modality | 第42-45页 |
| ·Implicit Agent | 第45-48页 |
| ·The Status of Adverbial modification | 第48-49页 |
| ·Semantic Constraints | 第49-54页 |
| ·The affectedness constraint? | 第49-51页 |
| ·Aspectual properties of middle verbs | 第51-53页 |
| ·Responsibility | 第53-54页 |
| ·Motivations | 第54-58页 |
| ·Constructional property inheritance | 第54-56页 |
| ·Metonymic coercion | 第56-58页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第58-60页 |
| Chapter 5 Chinese middle construction | 第60-78页 |
| ·Introduction | 第60页 |
| ·An Overview of the work on Chinese middles | 第60-61页 |
| ·The existence of Chinese middle construction | 第61-63页 |
| ·Related Constructions | 第63-68页 |
| ·“qilai”as a polysemous lexical item | 第63-65页 |
| ·CMC vs. Tough | 第65-67页 |
| ·CMC vs. Topicalization | 第67-68页 |
| ·Variations of CMC | 第68-76页 |
| ·The Semantic Constraints | 第76-78页 |
| Chapter 6 A Comparison between English and Chinese Middle Construction | 第78-82页 |
| ·Similarities between middles in the two languages | 第78页 |
| ·Differences between middles in the two languages | 第78-81页 |
| ·Productivity | 第78-80页 |
| ·Resultative compounds | 第80-81页 |
| ·Adverbial Modification | 第81页 |
| ·Summary | 第81-82页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第82-87页 |
| ·Major findings | 第82-83页 |
| ·Limitations | 第83页 |
| ·Remaining Questions for Further Research | 第83-87页 |
