| Contents | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 论文摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-15页 |
| ·Some Phenomena of Elliptical Constructions in Natural Language | 第9-11页 |
| ·Elliptical Constructions | 第11-13页 |
| ·Logic Problem of L2 Acquisition | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Syntactic Properties of English and Chinese Elliptical Constructions | 第15-26页 |
| ·VP Ellipsis and Gapping | 第15-17页 |
| ·Empty VP as an Empty, Nonarbitrary Pronominal | 第17-19页 |
| ·The Verb Elliptical Structure in Chinese | 第19-20页 |
| ·Verb gapping in Chinese | 第20-26页 |
| ·Evidence of verb gapping in Chinese by Paul | 第20-22页 |
| ·Arguments of Verb Gapping in Chinese by TANG | 第22-26页 |
| Chapter 3 Investigation of Acquisition Issues in SLA | 第26-35页 |
| ·An Overview of Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar | 第26-27页 |
| ·Universal Grammar in L1 Acquisition | 第27-28页 |
| ·The studies of UG and L2 Acquisition | 第28-35页 |
| ·Poverty of the Stimulus: Learnability Problems | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Initial State | 第31-32页 |
| ·The Full Transfer Full Access Hypothesis | 第32-35页 |
| Chapter 4 Experiments | 第35-43页 |
| ·Hypothesis and Predictions | 第35-37页 |
| ·Test Design | 第37-40页 |
| ·The Grammaticality Judgment Test | 第37-39页 |
| ·Instruction | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Language Proficiency Test | 第40页 |
| ·Subjects | 第40-41页 |
| ·Procedure | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter 5 Results | 第43-57页 |
| ·Experimental Results | 第43-49页 |
| ·Judgment of English gapping sentences without quantified NPs as the objects | 第43-45页 |
| ·Judgment of English VP Ellipsis sentences | 第45-46页 |
| ·Judgment of English gapping sentences with quantified NPs as the objects | 第46-49页 |
| ·Mean numbers of acceptance (maximum=4) for each type of contexts and each group of subjects | 第49-57页 |
| ·Judgments by Native Speakers | 第50页 |
| ·Judgments by Junior High School Subjects | 第50-51页 |
| ·Judgment by Senior High School Subjects | 第51-53页 |
| ·Judgments by University Students | 第53-57页 |
| Chapter 6 Discussions | 第57-64页 |
| ·Discussions of the Test Results | 第57-61页 |
| ·Results of judgment of English gapping sentences without quantified NPs as the objects | 第57-58页 |
| ·Results of tests of the correct judgment of English VP Ellipsis sentences | 第58-59页 |
| ·Results of the judgment of English gapping sentences with quantified NPs as the objects | 第59-60页 |
| ·Results of the judgment of English VP ellipsis sentences with quantified NPs as the objects | 第60-61页 |
| ·General Discussion | 第61页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第61-64页 |
| Appendix 1 | 第64-67页 |
| Appendix 2 | 第67-69页 |
| Appendix 3 | 第69-74页 |
| Bibliography | 第74-78页 |
