1 Introduction 1
2 Theoretical Background 6
2.1 Argument Structure(AS)Theory 7
2.2 Syntactic Approach to Lexicon-Syntax Relations 19
2.3 Conceptual Primitives at Semantics and Syntax Interface 24
2.4 Summary of the Theoretical Background 26
3 The Unaccusative Hypothesis 28
3.1 The Unaccusative Hypothesis 30
3.2 Approaches to Unaccusativity 38
3.3 Unaccusative Verbs in Heterogeneity 42
3.4 Levin and Rappaport Hovav's Linking Rules 47
3.5 Summary 53
4 Morphosyntax in Modern Chinese 55
4.1 Introduction 56
4.2 Compound Predicates in Chinese 57
4.3 V-O Compounding Revisited 61
4.4 A-O Compounds Revisited 71
4.5 Motivation for L-Syntax Theory 73
4.6 L-Syntax in Compounding in Chinese 75
4.7 Derivation of Deadjectivals in Chinese 87
4.8 Summary 89
5 Unaccusativity of Existential Constructions 90
5.1 Introduction 90
5.2 Approaches to ECs in English 91
5.3 Existential Constructions in Chinese 97
5.4 Constraints on the ECs in Chinese 109
5.5 EC Compatibility Test with Verb Subclasses 119
5.6 Configurational Approach to ECs 126
5.7 Introducing NPLOC to ECs in Modern Chinese 131
5.8 Some Controversies and Solutions 138
5.9 Summary 154
6 Unaccusativity of RCs in Modern Chinese 156
6.1 Introduction 156
6.2 Crosslinguistic Lexical-Syntactic Flexibility 158
6.3 Syntactic Representations of RCs in Chinese 177
6.4 Different Approaches to RCs in Chinese 201
6.5 Syntactic Configurations of RCs in Chinese 206
6.6 Summary 223
7 Concluding Remarks 225
Appendix 234
Bibliography 236
后记 248