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Introduction

Research Background
Ergative construction, as one of the peculiar linguistic phenomenon in humanlanguage, has been put forward in last century, and linguists in Western countries havedone lots of researches on this phenomenon, so the researches in Western countriesare relatively mature. Although Chinese linguists also have done numerous researcheson it, there are still some problems that need to be solved, that means linguists haven’treached a consensus on those problems, such as the criteria of ergative verbs, theclassification of ergative verbs, the diagnostic of accusative verbs and ergative verbsand so on. According to Universal Grammar, every language has its own linguisticrules, in order to solve the problems listed above, it is also necessary to have a deepunderstanding about our mother tongue. The main content of the thesis is to have acomprehensive analysis about the Chinese ergative construction under the theory ofMinimalist Program and then make a brief comparison between Chinese ergativeconstructions and English ergative constructions, hoping that the finding of this thesiscould help people have a better understanding about Chinese ergative constructions.
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Objective and Research Questions
The main goal of the thesis is to make a deep analysis about Chinese ergativeconstructions from the following aspects and then make a brief comparison withEnglish ergative construction.Firstly, some basic concepts about ergative construction will be introduced. Suchas what are ergative verbs? What are ergative constructions? And what are thedifferences between ergative construction and some other confusing items, such asmiddle construction and passive construction.Secondly, the thesis will make a detail analysis about the syntactic and semanticproperties of Chinese ergative constructions.Lastly, it will make a brief comparison between Chinese ergative constructionsand English ergative constructions, finding out the similarities and difference betweenthem.Based on research objectives, this current study is intended for addressing thefollowing questions:1. What is Chinese ergative construction?2. What are the syntactical and semantic properties of Chinese ergativeconstruction?3. What’s the similarities and differences between Chinese ergative constructionsand English ergative constructions?
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Chapter One Chinese Ergative Construction

1.1 Ergative Verbs
Though researches on ergative verbs at home and abroad are abundant,disagreements on the definition of ergative verbs are easy to be found.In China, only Zeng Liying and Song Yayun put forward the criterion forergative verbs. Zeng Liying proposes three standards to testify whether a verb is anergative verb or not. The first standard is that the verb could enter into the sentencespatterns “NP1+V+NP2” and the verb also could enter into the sentencepattern“NP2+V”; the second standard is that the verb could enter into the sentenceparttern “shi+NP+V”; the third one is when the verb is used in the sentence pattern“NP2+V”, the sentence could be modified by “all by itself”. Zeng Liying alsopresents that the first standard is dispensable if we want to judge whether a verb is anergative verb or not, but the second one and the third one could displace each other.That is if a verb satisfies the first one and one of the second and the third one, it is anergative verb. Later, Ding Yu本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。