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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 General Introduction
1.1 Research Objective
1.2 Rational for the Present Study
1.3 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Theoretical Framework
2.1 General Remarks
2.2 The Concept of Constructions
2.3 Tenets of Construction Grammar
2.4 Views of Construction Grammar on Syntax
2.5 The Nature of Verb Meaning and Constructional Meaning
2.6 The Integration of Verb and Construction
2.7 Summary
Chapter 3 Literature Review
3.1 Overview
3.2 Defining the English Middle Construction
3.3 Properties of English Middle Construction
3.3.1 Syntactic Properties
3.3.2 Semantic Properties
3.3.3 Restrictions on Middle Construction
3.4 Summary of the Literature Review
Chapter 4 Analysis of the Target Construction
4.1 General Remarks
4.2 The Existence of the English Middle Construction As a Construction
4.3Non-Derivational Characteristics of English Middle Construction
4.4 The Construction Grammar and English Middle Construction
4.5 Summary
Chapter 5 The Study
5.1 Overview
5.2 Research Design
5.3 Subjects
5.4 Task Design
5.5 Data Collection
5.6 Data Analysis
5.6.1 Scoring
5.6.2 Statistical Computation
Chapter 6 Resultsand Discussion
6.1 Overview
6.2 Results of Typical and Non-typical
6.3 Results of Verb
6.4 The Qualitative Analysis
6.4.1The Typical and Non-typical Qualitative Analysis
6.4.2 The Middle Verbs' Qualitative Analysis
6.5 Summary of the Empirical Study and Discussion
Chapter 7 Conclusions and Pedagogic Implications
7.1 Overview
7.2 Summary of Major Findings
7.3 Pedagogic Implications
7.4 Limitations and Issues for Further Research
References
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