1.Thematic Relations and Event Structure
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Vendlerian classes
1.3 Vendlerian classes in Chinese
1.4 Semantics of event structure
1.5 Syntax of event structure
1.6 Thematic relations from the event perspective
1.7 Models of event structure analysis
1.8 Summary
2.Thematic Structures of Resultative Predicates
2.1 Thematic hierarchy vs.event hierarchy
2.2 An event perspective on argument structure in Chinese resultatives
2.3 Resultative constructions in English
2.4 Resultatives with a path argument
2.5 Summary
3.Deriving Compound Predicates through Lexical Incorporation
3.1 The binary analysis
3.2 The ternary analysis
3.3 The lexical semantic analysis
3.4 Incorporation of compound predicates
3.5 Further evidence for incorporation and head movement
3.6 Summary
4.Oblique Argument and the Partitive Event Constraint
4.1 Locatum location alternation
4.2 Previous studies on complement alternation
4.3 The role of the indirect object argument
4.4 Complement alternations in Chinese
4.5 Summary
5.External Argument and Single Event Constraint
5.1 The Single Event Constraint on complex predicates
5.2 ‘Object-oriented﹀ adverbials
5.3 Syntacic evidence for a single event construal
5.4 Ambiguity and telicity
5.5 Ambiguity and telicity
5.5 Ambiguity and presupposition
5.6 Summary
6. Conclusion
Index
References