| 摘要 | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One The General Introduction | 第11-20页 |
| ·The Various Definitions of the Passive | 第11-13页 |
| ·The Various Forms of the Passive | 第13-18页 |
| ·The Passive Forms of English | 第13-16页 |
| ·The Passive Forms of Chinese | 第16-18页 |
| ·The Approach in the Thesis | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Value and Significance of the Thesis | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第20-33页 |
| ·Studies of Passive Voice Abroad | 第20-24页 |
| ·The Structural Analysis | 第20-21页 |
| ·Chomsky's Transformation | 第21-24页 |
| ·Grammatical Studies of Passive Voice at Home | 第24-27页 |
| ·Part of Speech | 第24-26页 |
| ·The Studying Results of the Generative Grammar | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Theoretical Basis:The Minimalist Program | 第27-33页 |
| ·VP Shells and Feature Checking Theory | 第27-29页 |
| ·The Lexicon and the Computing Process | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Theoretical Hypothesis | 第30-33页 |
| Chapter Three The Syntactic Study of the Passive Constructions | 第33-56页 |
| ·The English Passive Constructions | 第33-36页 |
| ·The Simple Pattern without "by" | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Complex Pattern with "by" | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Chinese Passive Constructions | 第36-51页 |
| ·The Long Passive Sentences | 第38-40页 |
| ·The Short Passive Sentences | 第40-43页 |
| ·The Passive Sentences with the Reserved Objects | 第43-47页 |
| ·The Passive Sentences with the Resumptive Pronouns | 第47-51页 |
| ·The Comparison of the Passives in English and Chinese | 第51-56页 |
| Chapter Four The Syntactic Analysis of the Implied Passive Structures | 第56-65页 |
| ·The Implied Passives in English | 第56-60页 |
| ·The Lexical Interpretation in English | 第57-58页 |
| ·The English Syntactic Motivation | 第58-60页 |
| ·The Implied Passives in Chinese | 第60-63页 |
| ·The Passives Derived from the Transitive Verbs | 第61-62页 |
| ·The Passives Derived from the Link Verbs | 第62-63页 |
| ·The Comparison of the Implied Passives in English and Chinese | 第63-65页 |
| Conclusion | 第65-69页 |
| Notes | 第69-70页 |
| Bibliography | 第70-73页 |
| 攻读学位期间完成的学术论文 | 第73-75页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第75页 |
