声明
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abstract
摘要
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Rationale of the Study
1.2 Significance of the Study
1.3 Objectives of the Study
1.4 Methodology
1.5 Organization of This Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Middle Construction
2.1.1 Definition of Middle Construction
2.1.2 Formation of Middle Construction
2.1.3 Syntactic Feature of Middle Construction
2.1.4 Semantic Feature of Middle Construction
2.2 Middle Verbs
2.2.1 Classification of Verbs
2.2.2 Selectional Restrictions on Middle Verbs
2.3 Adjuncts of Middle Construction
2.3.1 The Concept of Adjunct
2.3.2 Features of Middle Adjuncts
2.3.3 The Types of Adjuncts of Middle Construction
2.4 Relationships between Middle Constructions,Middle Verbs,and Adjuncts
2.5 Summary
Chapter Three Theoretical Framework
3.1 Cognitive Constructional Grammar
3.1.1 Concept of Construction
3.1.2 Nature of Verb Meaning and Construction Meaning
3.1.3 Argument Structure Constructions
3.2 Frame Semantics
3.3 Cooperative Principle
3.4 Summary
Chapter Four The Cognitive Approaches to the Selectional Restrictions on the Middle Constructions’ Adjuncts
4.1 The General Distribution of the Middle Constructions’ Adjuncts Based on Corpus Analysis
4.2 Selectional Restrictions on Adjuncts under the Framework of Construction Grammar
4.2.1 Selectional Restrictions on Adjuncts of the Middle Verb Read
4.2.2 Selectional Restrictions on Adjuncts of the Middle Verb Sell
4.2.3 Selectional Restrictions on Adjuncts of the Middle Verb Drive
4.3 Summary
Chapter Five Selectional Restrictions on Adjuncts under the Framework of Pragmatics
5.1 Selectional Restrictions on Adjuncts under the Framework of Cooperative Principle
5.1.1 Selectional Restrictions on the Ellipsis of Adjuncts:A Case Study of Adjuncts of the Middle Verbs Sell and Drive
5.1.2 Selectionai Restrictions on the Necessity of Adjuncts:A Case Study of Adjuncts of the Middle Verb Read
5.2 Selectional Restrictions on Adjuncts in Contexts
5.3 Differences and Similarities of Adjuncts of Three High Frequency Middle Verbs
5.3.1 Differences in Types of Adjuncts of Three High Frequency Middle Verbs
5.3.2 Similarities in Adverbs Placement of Three High Frequency Middle Verbs
5.4 Principles of Selectional Restrictions on Adjuncts
5.4.1 Semantic Selectional Principle
5.4.2 Pragmatic Selectional Principle
5.4.3 Integrating Selectional Restrictions on Middle Adjuncts
5.5 Summary
Chapter Six Conclusion
6.1 Major findings of the study
6.2 Implications of the study
6.3 Limitations
6.4 Prospects for further research
References