| Declaration | 第1-4页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-16页 |
| Table of Figures | 第16-18页 |
| List of Tables | 第18-22页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第22-23页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第23-34页 |
| ·Research Orientation | 第23页 |
| ·English Progressive Aspect: The Target of Research | 第23-27页 |
| ·Rationale | 第27-31页 |
| ·Decomposing the Learning Task of the English Progressive Aspect | 第27-29页 |
| ·Previous Studies and Their Inadequacies | 第29-31页 |
| ·Key Research Questions | 第31-32页 |
| ·Structure of the Dissertation | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter 2 In Search of a Unified Theoretical Account for L2 Progressive Aspect Acquisition | 第34-47页 |
| ·Previous Studies on L2 Aspect Acquisition: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Explanations | 第35-41页 |
| ·Form-meaning Mapping of L2 Tense-aspect Acquisition: Aspect Hypothesis | 第35-39页 |
| ·Form-function Mapping of L2 Tense-aspect Marking: Discourse Hypothesis | 第39-40页 |
| ·Narrative Structure and Lexical Aaspect: Conspiring Factors? | 第40-41页 |
| ·Theoretical Accounts of Form-meaning Mapping in Tense-aspect Acquisition | 第41-43页 |
| ·Language Bioprogram Hypothesis and Basic Child Grammar | 第41页 |
| ·Prototype Account and Distributional Bias Argument | 第41-42页 |
| ·Connectionist Account | 第42-43页 |
| ·Problems Existing in the Tense-aspect Acquisition Studies | 第43-44页 |
| ·Optimality Theory as a Unified Framework | 第44-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter 3 Constraints on the Progressive Aspect Marking in English and Chinese | 第47-87页 |
| ·Aspect and Other Related Notions | 第48-67页 |
| ·Aspect | 第49页 |
| ·Grammatical Aspect | 第49-51页 |
| ·Lexical Aspect | 第51-52页 |
| ·Technical Issues Related with Lexical Aspect | 第52-67页 |
| ·Interaction of Grammatical and Lexical Aspects | 第67-69页 |
| ·Semantic Constraints on Progressive Marking: The Form-meaning Mapping | 第69-79页 |
| ·The Formal Approach | 第70-71页 |
| ·The Functional Approach | 第71-76页 |
| ·The PROG Operator | 第76-79页 |
| ·Discourse Constraints of Progressive Aspect Marking: The Form-Function Mapping | 第79-82页 |
| ·Cross-linguistic Analysis of the Progressive Aspect in Chinese and English | 第82-85页 |
| ·Summary | 第85-87页 |
| Chapter 4 An OT Analysis of the Constraints on the Progressive and their Interaction | 第87-114页 |
| ·Optimality Theory | 第87-93页 |
| ·Basic Tenets of OT | 第87-88页 |
| ·Conventional Notations | 第88-90页 |
| ·Faithfulness and Markedness Constraints | 第90-91页 |
| ·OT Account of Language Acquisition | 第91-93页 |
| ·Conflicting Constraints on the Progressive Aspect Marking | 第93-100页 |
| ·Transitivity Hypothesis (TH) | 第94-96页 |
| ·Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) and Aspect Coercion | 第96-100页 |
| ·An OT Analysis of the Constraints on Aspect Marking and Their Ranking | 第100-112页 |
| ·Typology of Constraints on Aspect Marking in English | 第100-104页 |
| ·Constraint Ranking of Aspect Marking in English | 第104-106页 |
| ·Testing the Ranking of Constraints on Aspect Marking | 第106-112页 |
| ·Summary | 第112-114页 |
| Chapter 5 L2 Acquisition of the Progressive Aspect: Towards an OT Account | 第114-127页 |
| ·An OT Account of L2 Tense-aspect Acquisition | 第114-120页 |
| ·Initial Ranking of Constraints on Tense-aspect marking | 第115-117页 |
| ·Learning Algorithms in OT | 第117-120页 |
| ·Hypotheses on L2 Acquisition of English Tense-aspect System by Chinese EFL Learners | 第120-122页 |
| ·Hypothesis on Aspect Coercion | 第120页 |
| ·Hypotheses on Constraint Reranking | 第120-121页 |
| ·Hypotheses on Cross-linguistic Constraints | 第121-122页 |
| ·Variables Involved in Hypothesis Testing | 第122-125页 |
| ·L2-English Proficiency Level | 第123页 |
| ·NOCOER Constraint | 第123-124页 |
| ·IDENT(TF) Constranint | 第124-125页 |
| ·Tense-aspect Marking | 第125页 |
| ·Summary | 第125-127页 |
| Chapter 6 Research Design, Instrumentation, Data Collection and Data Analysis | 第127-152页 |
| ·Research Design | 第127-128页 |
| ·Participants | 第128-130页 |
| ·Instrumentation | 第130-146页 |
| ·Acceptability Judgment Test (AJT) | 第131-134页 |
| ·Aspect Sentence Interpretation Task (ASIT) | 第134-141页 |
| ·Movie Clip Retell Task (MCRT) | 第141-145页 |
| ·Summary of Test Instruments | 第145-146页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第146-147页 |
| ·Time and Venue | 第146页 |
| ·Task Sequence | 第146-147页 |
| ·Data Scoring and Coding | 第147-150页 |
| ·Scoring of ASIT Data | 第147-149页 |
| ·Scoring of AJT Data | 第149页 |
| ·Coding and Scoring MCRT Data | 第149-150页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第150-151页 |
| ·Summary | 第151-152页 |
| Chapter 7 Results for Research Hypotheses Testing | 第152-201页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 1 | 第152-165页 |
| ·Testing Hypotheses 1 through Movie Clip Retell Test (MCRT) Data | 第153-159页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 1 through Aspect Sentence Interpretation Task (ASIT) | 第159-162页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 1 through Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT) | 第162-165页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 2 | 第165-176页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 2 through Movie Clip Retell Task (MCRT) | 第165-171页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 2 through Aspect Sentence Interpretation Task (ASIT) | 第171-174页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 2 through Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT) | 第174-176页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 3 | 第176-186页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 3 through Movie Clip Retell Task (MCRT) | 第177-179页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 3 through Aspect Sentence Interpretation Task (ASIT) | 第179-186页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 4 | 第186-193页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 4 through Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT) | 第187-191页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 4 through Movie Clip Retell Task (MCRT) | 第191-193页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 5 | 第193-199页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 5 through Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT) | 第194-195页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 5 through Movie Clip Retell Task (MCRT) | 第195-197页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 5 through Aspect Sentence Interpretation Task (ASIT) | 第197-199页 |
| ·Summary | 第199-201页 |
| Chapter 8 General Discussion | 第201-223页 |
| ·Developmental Route of English Tense-aspect Acquisition by Chinese EFL Learners | 第202-207页 |
| ·A Summary of Major Findings | 第202-204页 |
| ·Characterizing L2 Acquisition of the English Aspect Markers by Chinese EFL Learners | 第204-207页 |
| ·Implications of OT for the Developmental Route of L2 Tense-Aspect Forms | 第207-216页 |
| ·An OT Account of the Initial State | 第207-210页 |
| ·The Triggering Factor in Tense-aspect Acquisition | 第210-212页 |
| ·The Spread from Prototypical to Non-prototypical Situation-Aspect Mappings | 第212-214页 |
| ·The Role of Statives in Progressive Aspect Marking | 第214-216页 |
| ·The Explanatory Power of OT for L2 Aspect Acquisition | 第216-220页 |
| ·Temporal Semantics and Discourse Grounding, Two Conspiring Forces? | 第216-218页 |
| ·Nativism or Connectionism | 第218-220页 |
| ·Summary | 第220-223页 |
| Chapter 9 Conclusions, Implications, Limitations and Suggestions for Future Research | 第223-230页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第223-224页 |
| ·Implications | 第224-227页 |
| ·Implications for SLA Theory | 第224-226页 |
| ·Implications for L2 Tense-aspect Instruction | 第226-227页 |
| ·Limitations | 第227-228页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Research | 第228-230页 |
| References | 第230-239页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Progressive Aspect Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT) | 第239-242页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Aspect Sentence Interpretation Task (ASIT) | 第242-255页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ Descriptive Statistic Data for the Figures | 第255-256页 |
