by Jihua Zhou. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-115). / ACKNOWLEDGMENT --- p.i / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.ix / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Aims and Scope --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Significance --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- The Organization of the Study --- p.4 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- APPROACHES TO THE PASSIVE： LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS AND SOME ACQUISITION ISSUES --- p.5 / Chapter 2.0 --- Introduction --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Approaches to the Analysis of the Sentential Passive --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- The Syntactic Structures and the Aspects Approach --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- The Lexical Approach --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- The Modular Approach --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- Semantic Constraints On Theta-Role Assignment in the Sentential Passive --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2 --- The Analyses of the Nominal Passive --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3 --- Passive Related Structures --- the Ergative and the Middle --- p.19 / Chapter 2.4 --- Empirical Studies on the Passive Acquisition --- p.23 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Studies on L1 acquisition --- p.23 / Chapter 2.4.1.1 --- Maratsos et al. (1985) --- p.23 / Chapter 2.4.1.2 --- Pinker et al. (1987) --- p.26 / Chapter 2.4.1.3 --- Gordon and Chafetz (1990) --- p.29 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Studies on L2 passive acquisition --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4.2.1 --- Zhou (1989) --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4.2.2 --- Zobl (1989) --- p.32 / Chapter 2.5 --- Acquisition Issues --- p.34 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- RESEARCH DESIGN AND PROCEDURE --- p.39 / Chapter 3.0 --- Introduction --- p.39 / Chapter 3.1 --- Research Hypotheses --- p.40 / Chapter 3.2 --- Subjects --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3 --- Test Design --- p.44 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Test1 --- p.44 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Test2 --- p.46 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Test3 --- p.48 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Test4 --- p.50 / Chapter 3.4 --- Test Procedure and Test Scoring --- p.51 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- RESULTS --- p.54 / Chapter 4.1 --- Results of Test1 --- p.55 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Learners' Sensitivity to the Conditions for NP-Movement Is Relatively Low --- p.57 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Context-dependence of Learners' Sensitivity to the Requirements of Case Theory --- p.60 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Learners' Sensitivity to NP-Movement in Sentences with or without the by-phrase --- p.64 / Chapter 4.1.4. --- Learners' Sensitivity to NP-Movement is Related to the Actionality of the Verb --- p.66 / Chapter 4.2 --- Results of Test2 --- p.68 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- The Interpretation of Thematic Roles --- p.68 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- The Acceptability of Thematic Role Pairs Violating THC --- p.71 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- The Thematic Interpretation of the Subject --- p.73 / Chapter 4.3 --- Results of Test3 --- p.76 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Lower Sensitivity to NP-Movement in Nominal Passives --- p.79 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Learners' Performance on Some Other Aspects of the Nominal Passive --- p.80 / Chapter 4.4 --- Results of Test4 --- p.83 / Chapter 4.5 --- Summary --- p.90 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- DISCUSSION --- p.92 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Availability of UG Principles in the Acquisition of the Passive Structure --- p.92 / Chapter 5. 2 --- Affectedness Constraint Posing a Very Difficult Learning Problem --- p.98 / Chapter 5.3 --- The Passive Related Structures and Learnability Issues --- p.101 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- CONCLUSION --- p.107 / REFERENCES --- p.112 / APPENDICES --- p.116

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