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Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Definition of middle verb constructions
1.2 Objectives
1.3 Questions leading the study of middles
1.4 Proposal
1.5 Organization of the thesis
Chapter Two English Middle Verb Constructions
2.1 Introduction
2.2 General properties of English middle constructions
2.2.1 Semantic features of middle constructions
2.2.2 Syntactic features of middle constructions
2.2.3 Properties of English middle verbs
2.3 Constraints on English middle formation
2.3.1 The affectedness constraint
2.3.2 Aspectual properties of middle verbs
2.3.3 Responsible subjects
2.4 Derivation of English middle constructions
2.4.1 Lexical approach
2.4.2 Syntactic approach
2.4.3 Summary
Chapter Three Chinese Middle Verb Constructions
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Chinese middles defined
3.2.1 Topic constructions vs. middles
3.2.2 Tough constructions vs. middles
3.2.3 qilai in Chinese middles
3.3 General properties of Chinese middles
3.3.1 Genericity, non-eventivity and agentivity
3.3.2 Modality
3.3.3 Internal argument raising
3.3.4 Obligatory adverbial adjuncts
3.3.5 Aspectual properties of middle verbs
3.4 Derivation of Chinese middles
3.4.1 Lexical approach
3.4.2 Syntactic approach
3.5 Summary
Chapter Four An Updated and Unified Account of Middles
4.1 Theoretical framework
4.1.1 New conceptions of language
4.1.2 Lexicon and lexical array
4.1.3 Agree-feature and Edge-feature
4.1.4 Two phases: C-T and v*-V
4.1.5 Basic operations
4.1.6 Structural Case
4.2 An updated and unified account of English and Chinese middles
4.2.1 Parallelism between middles and passives
4.2.2 Categories in middle constructions
4.2.3 An updated and unified account of Middles
4.2.4 A unified account for the parallelism between middles and passives
4.3 Summary
Chapter Five Conclusion and Outstanding Issues
References
Published Paper
Acknowledgements
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