| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第12-14页 |
| 1.2 Research Questions and Significance | 第14-15页 |
| 1.3 Theoretical Framework of the Thesis | 第15页 |
| 1.4 Outline of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第16-29页 |
| 2.1 Valency Theory Based Account | 第16-17页 |
| 2.2 Deg-Shell Analysis | 第17-22页 |
| 2.3 A Covert Morpheme-guo2 Based Account | 第22-25页 |
| 2.4 Case Based Account | 第25-28页 |
| 2.5 Summary | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter 3 Proposals on the Puzzles of Mandarin Transitive Comparatives | 第29-51页 |
| 3.1 Syntactic and Semantic Properties of MTCs | 第29-33页 |
| 3.2 Proposals on the Puzzles of MTCs | 第33-48页 |
| 3.2.1 Restrictions on the Adjectives in MTCs | 第33-42页 |
| 3.2.2 Obligatory Presence of Measure Phrases in MTCs | 第42-48页 |
| 3.3 The Transitive Comparatives in Dialect | 第48-50页 |
| 3.4 Summary | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter 4 The Semantics of Mandarin Transitive Comparatives | 第51-59页 |
| 4.1 Explicit vs.Implicit Comparion | 第51-55页 |
| 4.1.1 Definition | 第51-52页 |
| 4.1.2 Diagnostics for Implicit Comparison | 第52-55页 |
| 4.2 Mandarin Transitive Comparatives as Explicit Comparison | 第55-58页 |
| 4.2.1 Crisp Judgments | 第55-56页 |
| 4.2.2 Minimum Standard Gradable Adjectives | 第56-57页 |
| 4.2.3 Differential Measurements | 第57-58页 |
| 4.3 Summary | 第58-59页 |
| Chapter 5 Comparison between Mandarin Transitive Comparatives and OtherRelated Mandarin Comparatives | 第59-66页 |
| 5.1 Comparison between MTCs and the Yu Comparatives | 第59-61页 |
| 5.2 Comparison between MTCs and the Chu Comparatives | 第61-63页 |
| 5.3 Comparison between MTCs and the Guo Comparatives | 第63-65页 |
| 5.4 Summary | 第65-66页 |
| Conclusion | 第66-68页 |
| References | 第68-73页 |
| Appendix 详细中文摘要 | 第73-76页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第76页 |
