| Introduction | 第1-19页 |
| 0．1 Research Questions | 第16页 |
| 0．2 Significance of This Study | 第16-17页 |
| 0．3 Outline of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter One Lexicosemantic Structure Theory | 第19-25页 |
| 1．0 Overview | 第19页 |
| 1．1 Lexical decomposition | 第19-22页 |
| 1．2 Linking rules | 第22-23页 |
| 1．3 Bearing of lexical decomposition and linking roles on L2 learning | 第23-24页 |
| 1．4 Summary | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter Two Unaccusativity at Syntax-lexical Semantics Interface | 第25-39页 |
| 2．0 Overview | 第25页 |
| 2．1 Unaccusative Hypothesis | 第25-27页 |
| 2．2 Unaccusativity Hierarchy on the Semantics-syntax Interface | 第27-29页 |
| 2．3 Semantic Determinants of Unaccusativity in English | 第29-31页 |
| 2．4 External Causation and Unaccusative Strength | 第31页 |
| 2．5 Diagnostic Constructions in English | 第31-35页 |
| 2．5．1．1 Resultative Construction | 第31-33页 |
| 2．5．1．2 Incompatibility of Resultative Phrases with Subsets of Unaccusatives | 第33-34页 |
| 2．5．2 X's Way Construction | 第34-35页 |
| 2．6 Alternate Unaccusative Verbs and Decansativization | 第35-37页 |
| 2．7 Summary | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Three Passive structure | 第39-44页 |
| 3．0 Overview | 第39页 |
| 3．1 English Passive as Canonical NP Movement | 第39页 |
| 3．2 NP Movement Analysis of the Passive | 第39-40页 |
| 3．3 Two Properties of the Passive in English and Burio's Generalization | 第40-41页 |
| 3．4 Binding of External Cause | 第41页 |
| 3．5 Saliency of the Passive NP Movement | 第41-42页 |
| 3．6 Unaccusative and Passive | 第42-43页 |
| 3．7 Summary | 第43-44页 |
| Chapter Four Chinese unaccusative verbs | 第44-52页 |
| 4．0 Overview | 第44页 |
| 4．1 Unaccusative Sets in Chinese | 第44-45页 |
| 4．2 Unaccusative Verbs and Reduced Passive | 第45-47页 |
| 4．3 Compounding in Place of Causativization | 第47-49页 |
| 4．4 L1 instantiation: Chinese vs． English Unaccusativity | 第49-51页 |
| 4．5 Summary | 第51-52页 |
| Chapter Five Hypothesizing Overpassivizationon Unaccusative Verbs | 第52-65页 |
| 5．0 Overview | 第52页 |
| 5．1 Previous Accounts of Overpassivization | 第52-60页 |
| 5．1．1 Transfer of a Compound Tense/Aspect System in the Learner's L1 | 第52-54页 |
| 5．1．2 Overgeneralization of the English Adjectival Passive Formation | 第54-55页 |
| 5．1．3 Transitivization Analysis | 第55-57页 |
| 5．1．4 Syntactic Post-verbal NP Movement | 第57-58页 |
| 5．1．5 Cognitive factor—the Effect of Conceptualizable Agents | 第58-59页 |
| 5．1．6 Overpassivization from the Lexical Semantic Perspective | 第59-60页 |
| 5．2 Proposing a Unified Account of Overpassivization | 第60-63页 |
| 5．3 Hypotheses on Overpassivization of Unaccusative Verbs in English | 第63-65页 |
| Chapter Six The Study | 第65-74页 |
| 6．0 Overview | 第65页 |
| 6．1 Research Design | 第65-66页 |
| 6．2 Instrumentation | 第66-67页 |
| 6．3 Participants | 第67-68页 |
| 6．4 Forced--choice Task | 第68-72页 |
| 6．4．1 Elicitation | 第68-70页 |
| 6．4．2 Organization of Unaccusative Verbs in the Task | 第70-71页 |
| 6．4．3 Function of Distracters | 第71页 |
| 6．4．4 Other Precautions Taken | 第71-72页 |
| 6．4．5 Control of Extraneous Factors | 第72页 |
| 6．5 Potential Transfer from Chinese | 第72-73页 |
| 6．6 Summary | 第73-74页 |
| Chapter Seven Results and Discussion | 第74-105页 |
| 7．0 Overview | 第74页 |
| 7．1 Preliminary Results | 第74-81页 |
| 7．2 Further Statistical Analyses | 第81-88页 |
| 7．2．1 Presupposed Empirical Manifestations | 第81-82页 |
| 7．2．2 Testing the Hypotheses | 第82-88页 |
| 7．3 Discussion | 第88-94页 |
| 7．3．1 Hierarchy of Unaccusativity Strength and Overpassivization | 第88-89页 |
| 7．3．2 Context Suggestion and Inferencing of External Causation | 第89-92页 |
| 7．3．3 Additional Support for Considering a Cognitive Factor | 第92-94页 |
| 7．4 Challenge of English Unaccusative Verbs to L2 Learners | 第94-95页 |
| 7．5 Defaultness of a UG Bi-eventive Template | 第95-96页 |
| 7．6 Conclusion | 第96-97页 |
| 7．7 Limitations and Suggested Further Research | 第97-105页 |
