Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 General Objective 1
1.2 Structure of the Book 2
1.3 Argument Structure:An Overview 4
1.4 Summary 42
Chapter 2 An Isomorphic Model of Argument Structure 43
2.1 Introduction 43
2.2 Theoretical Framework 44
2.3 Summary 68
Chapter 3 The Event Composition in Mandarin Chinese 69
3.1 Prima Facie Evidence 69
3.2 Previous Studies on Mandarin Event Types 71
3.3 Our Claim 72
3.4 Summary 103
Chapter 4 Resultative Verb Compounds in Mandarin Chinese 104
4.1 Introduction 104
4.2 Why Study Resultative Construction? 104
4.3 Towards a Definition of RVCs 106
4.4 Classification of RVCs 111
4.5 The Host of a Resultative Predicate 118
4.6 Some Approaches to RVCs 120
4.7 The Syntactic Account of RVCs 133
4.8 Control and Ambiguity 147
4.9 Residual Issues:The Status of V1 in RVCs 156
4.10 Summary 157
Chapter 5 Extra-argumentality in Mandarin Chinese 159
5.1 The Phenomenon of Extra-argumentality 159
5.2 Double Object Construction 164
5.3 The Transitive Unaccusative 180
5.4 Summary 186
Chapter 6 Cross-linguistic Variations 188
6.1 Introduction 188
6.2 A Few Issues 189
6.3 Our Account 192
6.4 Summary 199
Chapter 7 Conclusion 201
References 204
