| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第14-17页 |
| ·Research orientation | 第14页 |
| ·Research rationale for the study of L2 dative alternation | 第14-15页 |
| ·Improving L2 teaching and learning of English dative alternation | 第14页 |
| ·Providing a cornerstone of further study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Research questions | 第15-16页 |
| ·Organizations of the thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第17-32页 |
| ·Introduction | 第17页 |
| ·Theories on dative alternation | 第17-25页 |
| ·Pinker's Broad and Narrow-range rules | 第17-20页 |
| ·Broad-range rules | 第17-18页 |
| ·Narrow-rangerules | 第18-19页 |
| ·Latinate constraint/native/Latinate distinction | 第19-20页 |
| ·Property-predicting and existing-predicting | 第20页 |
| ·Goldberg's Constructionist View | 第20-24页 |
| ·General description of constructions and Construction Grammar (CG) | 第20页 |
| ·Polysemy of the ditransitive construction | 第20-22页 |
| ·Partial productivity of the ditransitive construction | 第22页 |
| ·Indirect negative evidence | 第22页 |
| ·Narrowly defined semantic subclasses | 第22页 |
| ·Semantic constraints and metaphorical extensions of the ditransitives | 第22-24页 |
| ·Volitionality of the agent | 第22-23页 |
| ·Semantic constraints on the recipient | 第23页 |
| ·On the notion "recipient" | 第23页 |
| ·Other metaphors licensing the use of the ditransitive construction | 第23-24页 |
| ·Summary | 第24-25页 |
| ·The acquisition of dative alternation: an overview of the previous studies | 第25-28页 |
| ·Mazurkewich, I | 第25页 |
| ·Inagaki | 第25-26页 |
| ·Whong-Barr, M.& Bonnie D.Schwartz | 第26-27页 |
| ·Tendencies and characteristics of Chinese dative alternation | 第27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-28页 |
| ·Evaluation and comments of the reviewed studies and theories | 第28-30页 |
| ·Strengths of the previous studies | 第28-29页 |
| ·Weaknesses of the previous studies | 第29-30页 |
| ·Theoretical framework of the present study | 第30-32页 |
| ·Variables of the present research | 第30页 |
| ·Key terms employed in the research | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter 3 Cross-linguistic Comparisons and L2 Acquisition of Dative Alternations | 第32-43页 |
| ·Introduction | 第32页 |
| ·Constructivist view of Chinese di-transitive verbs | 第32-33页 |
| ·Dative Alternations in English and Chinese | 第33-40页 |
| ·Tell-class and Throw-class verbs | 第34-36页 |
| ·Push-class and Whisper-class verbs | 第36-37页 |
| ·Show-class and Donate-class verbs | 第37-39页 |
| ·Draw-class and Fix-class for-datives | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Bring-take pair | 第40页 |
| ·The Canonical Construction Hypothesis | 第40-41页 |
| ·Research Hypotheses | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter 4 Methodology | 第43-47页 |
| ·Research design | 第43页 |
| ·Subjects | 第43-44页 |
| ·Selection of the subjects | 第43页 |
| ·Norm and process of grouping the subjects | 第43-44页 |
| ·Instrumentation | 第44-45页 |
| ·Data collection | 第45-46页 |
| ·Data preparation and analysis | 第46-47页 |
| ·Data preparation | 第46页 |
| ·Statistical techniques for quantitative analysis | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter 5 Results | 第47-59页 |
| ·Introduction | 第47页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 1 | 第47-49页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 2 | 第49-51页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 3 | 第51-53页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 4 | 第53-55页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 5 | 第55-57页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 6 | 第57-59页 |
| Chapter 6 Discussion | 第59-65页 |
| ·Introduction | 第59页 |
| ·Summary of Major findings | 第59-61页 |
| ·The Psychological Reality of V-gei Compound and gei Construction | 第61-63页 |
| ·The interaction of Overgeneralization and L1 Transfer | 第63-64页 |
| ·The Canonical Construction Hypothesis | 第64-65页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusions, implications, and limitations | 第65-68页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第65页 |
| ·Implications | 第65-66页 |
| ·Limitations | 第66-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-72页 |
| Appendix | 第72-77页 |
| Papers published during 2004-2007 | 第77页 |
