CHAPTER 1 Introduction and Outline
1��1 The Debate Between Talmy and Slobin
1��2 Outline

CHAPTER 2 Talmy's and Siobin's Typological Theories and Chinese SVCs
2��1 Introduction
2��2 Talmy's Typology Model
2��2��1 Path and Satellite
2��2��2 Three Typological Types of Motion Verbs
2��3 Slobin's Typology Model
2��4 The Core of the Debate
2��5 Chinese SVCs
2��5��1 Li and Thompson's Original Analysis of SVCs in Chinese
2��5��2 Criteria of Defining SVCs
2��5��3 Control Patterns and SVCs in English
2��5��4 Summary

CHAPTER 3 Methodology and Data Collection
3��1 Introduction
3��2 Slobin's Argument
3��3 Properties of SVCs and Searching Method in a Corpus
3��4 The LCMC
3��5 Data of Chinese SVCs
3��6 Not Every SVC Expresses a Motion Event
3��6��1 Motion Event Types and Event Types
3��6��2 The Motion Group and the Non-motion Group
3��7 Summary

CHAPTER 4 Defining Semantic Parameters
4��1 Introduction
4��2 Diagnosis for Subevents
4��2��1 Evidence for Lexical Decomposition
4��2��2 Behaviour of Verbs
4��3 Talmy's Analysis of Motion Events
4��3��1 Talmy's Decomposition of the Meanings of Verbs
4��3��2 Semantic Elements and Lexicalisation��T�� Patterns
4��3��3 Summary
4��4 Semantic Structure of SVCs
4��5 Semantic Parameters
4��5��1 The Four Semantic Parameters in the First Group
4��5��2 The Nine Semantic Parameters in the Second Group
4��5��3 Summary
4��6 Event Relations in SVCs
4��6��1 Li and Thompson's SVC Event Relations
4��6��2 Hwang's Event Relations within SVCs
4��6��3 Semantic Relations and Temporal Relations
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CHAFFER 5 Semantic Co-occurring Patterns of Chinese SVCs
CHAPTER 6 Discussion of the Non-occurring Patterns
CHAPTER 7 Path Verbs in Chinese
CHAPTER 8 Conclusion and Further Research

REFERENCES
DICTIONARIES
APPENDIXES
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS