Contents
叢書序
前言
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Research background 1
1.2 Research aims and research questions 5
1.3 Significance of the study 6
1.4 Structure of the book 8
Chapter 2 Functional Categories and Their Deficits in Agrammatism 9
2.1 An overview of functional categories 9
2.2 Functional categories in Mandarin Chinese 13
2.2.1 CP 14
2.2.2 TP/AspP 22
2.2.3 vP: ba construction and bei construction 26
2.2.4 Summary 31
2.3 Functional category deficits in agrammatism 32
2.3.1 Deficits in production 32
2.3.2 Some accounts of agrammatic production 38
2.3.3 Deficits in comprehension 46
2.3.4 Some accounts of agrammatic comprehension 49
2.4 Limitations of the previous studies 53
2.5 Summary and motivation of the present study 57
Chapter 3 The Synthesis of Synchronic and Diachronic Studies 58
3.1 An overview of synchronic and diachronic studies 58
3.2 Research design for the synchronic group study 59
3.2.1 Participants 59
3.2.2 Instruments 62
3.2.3 Procedures 63
3.2.4 Data collection 64
3.2.5 Data analysis 65
3.3 Research design for the diachronic case study 65
3.3.1 Participant 66
3.3.2 Tasks and materials 66
3.3.3 Procedures 93
3.3.4 Data collection 94
3.3.5 Data analysis 95
3.4 Summary 95
Chapter 4 Results of the Synchronic and Diachronic Studies 97
4.1 Results of the synchronic group study 97
4.1.1 Comparisons between the IWA and NBD groups 98
4.1.2 Comparisons within the IWA 109
4.2 Results of the diachronic case study 118
4.2.1 Performance through time process 118
4.2.2 Comparisons among different tasks 137
4.2.3 Comparisons among different time frames 145
4.2.4 Summary of the diachronic case study 151
4.3 Discussion 152
4.3.1 On the findings in the synchronic group study 152
4.3.2 On the findings in the diachronic case study 157
Chapter 5 General Discussion on Synchronic and Diachronic Studies 170
5.1 Reconsiderations of some prior accounts 171
5.1.1 The TDH 171
5.1.2 The TPH 173
5.1.3 The TUH 174
5.1.4 The Impaired Interpretable Feature Hypothesis 175
5.1.5 The DOP-H 176
5.1.6 A Phase Theory-based alternative 177
5.2 Some implications for Chinese linguistics 182
5.2.1 Implications for le1 and le2 183
5.2.2 Implications for the bei passives 184
5.2.3 Implications for the theory of thematic order 186
Chapter 6 Conclusion 188
6.1 Summary of the present study 188
6.2 Contributions of the present study 191
6.3 Limitations of the design of the study 192
6.4 Unresolved issues and directions for future research 194
References 197
Appendix A 212
Appendix B 237