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nstruction through the morpho-syntactic level,which is intermediate between the lexicon and syntax level. At the morpho-syntacticlevel, thematic and case structures are both preserved thus V-qilai construction isderived in this level. Sung also points out that “qilai” has various meanings and not allthe meanings can cater to the requirements of middle construction. Only one certaintype of “qiali” can function as the marker of middle construction.Cao(2004a,2004b)makes a thorough and detailed study about middle construction.She holds the view that Chinese middle construction does exist. Though she proposesthat Chinese middle constructions fall into three types, namely “NP+V-qilai+AP”,“NP+V-shangqu+AP”, “NP+V-zhe+AP”, she still focuses her study on V-qilaiconstructions. She puts forward “NP+V-qilai+AP” is the general form of Chinesemiddle constructions and the NP is a patient. According to her, the semanticinterpretation of middle constructions is like this: the sentence initial NP has such aproperty that when V-doing NP is performed, it will take the state of AP. She also holdsthat only evaluative V-qilai construction can be seen as middle construction and sheputs forward two criteria for the classification of evaluative V-qilai constructions. Basedon the criteria, there are four types. More details about Cao’ s classification will beshown in section 4.2.
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CHAPTER 3 THEORETICAL FOUNDATION.....17
3.1 INFORMATION DEPENDENCY MODEL...........17
3.1.1 Entity and Relation........... 18
3.1.2 Simple Information and Full Information............ 18
3.1.3 Information Dependency Model.........19
3.2 INFORMATION DEPENDENCY LANGUAGE MODEL.... 19
3.4 IDLM ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH MC AND V-QILAI CONSTRUCTION......26
CHAPTER 4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION...........32
4.1 A NEW CLASSIFICATION OF V-QILAI CONSTRUCTION........32
4.2 IDLM ANALYSIS OF V-QILAI CONSTRUCTION.......40
4.3 SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MIDDLE CONSTRUCTION ANDV-QILAI CONSTRUCTION.......47
4.3.1 Similarities......48
4.3.2 Differences......49
CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION..........52
5.1 MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE THESIS..........52
5.2 LIMITATIONS.... 53

Chapter 4 Results and Discussion

Since the publication of Keyser and Roeper’s On the Middle and ErgativeConstructions in English, middle construction has attracted numerous scholars ofdifferent linguistic schools. Scholars exert great efforts to give definitions, concludecharacteristics and probe into the formation mechanisms. Middle construction is also across-language phenomenon. According to Lekakou(2002), middle semantics isuniversal, different languages permit different types of middles in different syntactic ormorphological forms. The research on middle construction in German and Dutch havebeen fruitful. However, the issue of middle construction in Chinese is rathercontroversial. Does middle construction exist in Chinese? A number of differentanswers to this question have been proposed. Most scholars suggest V-qilai constructionin Chinese is middle construction, while disagreement and inconsistency never quests.The purpose of this paper is to investigate V-qilai construction with a comparison ofmiddle construction.Therefore, at the very beginning of this chapter, the meaning of qilai is to beobserved, laying foundation to classify the V-qilai constructions. Classification help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。