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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Purpose and Significance of the Research
1.2 Basic Theory
1.3 Research Methods
1.4 Research Questions
1.5 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 In the Field of Passive
2.2 In the Field of English-Chinese Passive Constructions
2.3 In the Field of Ergativity
2.4 Comments on Previous Research
Chapter 3 Grammatical Representations of Passive Category in World Language
3.1 Passive and Passive Meaning
3.2 Grammatical Representations of Passive Category in Ergative Languages
3.3 Grammatical Representations of Passive Category in Nominative Languages
3.4 Grammatical Representations of English-Chinese Passive Categories
3.5 Summary
Chapter 4 Syntactic Analysis of Case Alignment on Chinese Passive Category
4.1 Unaccusative Hypothesis
4.2 Nominative-Accusative case Alignments in Ergative-Absolutive Languages
4.3 Ergative Verbs in Chinese
4.4 Ergative Case Alignments in Chinese Passive Category
4.5 Markedness in Chinese Passive Category
4.6 Summary
Chapter 5 Syntactic Analysis of Case Alignment on English Passive Category
5.1 Study of Ergativity in English
5.2 Ergative Verbs in English
5.3 The Syntactic Analysis of Middle Construction
5.4 Antipassive in English and Chinese
5.5 Similarities and Differences between Ergativity of English and Chinese Passive Category
5.6 Summary
Chapter 6 Forces to the Case Alignment of Ergativity in Nominative Languages
6.1 Splits Conditioned by the Semantic Nature of Verbs
6.2 Splits Conditioned by the Semantic Nature of NPs
6.3 Splits Conditioned by Tense/Aspect/Mood
6.4 Summary
Chapter 7 Conclusion
7.1 Major Findings
7.2 Limitations
7.3 Suggestions for Further Study
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