list of figures list of abbreviations chapter 1 introduction 1.1 types of enhanced theme constructions 1.2 the estential enhanced theme construction 1.2.1 "the eet construction" as a choice 1.2.2 four types of eet constructions 1.3 theoretical orientation 1.4 objectives and research questions 1.5 terms used in other studies 1.6 data and methodology 1.7 the organization of the book chapter 2 a review of previous studies 2.1 introduction 2.2 traditional descriptive approaches 2.2.1 jespersen (1937/1984, 1945/1965) 2.2.2 bolinger (1977) 2.2.3 quirk and greenbaum (1973) and quirk et al.(1985) 2.2.4 huddleston (1984, 1988) 2.2.5 biber et al.(1999/2000) 2.2.6 huddleston and pullum (2002) 2.3 generative grammar approaches 2.3.1 chomsky (1981) 2.3.2 lumsden (1988) 2.3.3 chomsky (1995) 2.3.4 han (2001) 2.3.5 tang (2001) 2.4 functional approaches 2.4.1 scottetal(1968) 2.4.2 dik (1980, 1981) 2.4.3 hannay (1985) 2.4.4 young (1980) 2.4.5 morley (2000) 2.4.6 kuno and takami (2004) 2.5 the madrid grammar approach 2.6 conclu remarks chapter 3 the estential enhanced theme construction: towards a theory-neutral description 3.1 introduction 3.2 basic characteristics of the construction 3.2.1 there 3.2.2 the main verb 3.2.3 subject-verb agreement and a tentative account 3.2.4 the tverbal nominal group 3.2.5 the t-ngp element 3.3 summary and conclusion chapter 4 the theoretical framework 4.1 introduction 4.2 systemic functional grammar 4.2.1 scales and categories 4.2.2 system and system work 4.2.3 metafunctions and semantic works in the sydney grammar 4.3 the cardiff grammar 4.3.1 history background 4.3.2 the main ponents in the cardiff grammar 4.3.3 semantic system works in the cardiff grammar 4.3.4 realization rules 4.3.5 form: realization in syntax 4.4 conclu remarks chapter 5 an alternative systemic functional approach 5.1 introduction 5.2 the sydney grammar approaches 5.2.1 hallidays approach 5.2.2 matthiessen (1995) 5.2.3 downing and locke () 5.2.4 thomon (1996/2000) and huang (1997, 1999) 5.3 the cardiff grammar approach 5.3.1 the experiential meaning of the eet construction 5.3.2 fawcetts syntactic-semantic analysis and minor adjustments 5.3.3 two estential enhanced theme analyses 5.4 the thematic options in the eet construction 5.5 the relationship to the non-enhanced version 5.6 the syntactic-semantic analysis of different types of eet constructions 5.6.1 the locational eet construction 5.6.2 the attributive eet construction 5.6.3 the directional eet construction 5.6.4 the sessive eet construction 5.7 summary and conclusions chapter 6 the semantics of the verbs in the eet construction 6.1 introduction 6.2 les as "most delicate grammar" 6.3 the exploration of the grammarians dream 6.3.1 berry (1977) 6.3.2 fawcett (1980, 1987) 6.3.3 hasan (1987) 6.3.4 cross () 6.3.5 tucker (1996, 1998) 6.4 the semantics of the verbs in the eet construction 6.4.1 previous classifications 6.4.2 the systemic representation of the verbs in the construction 6.5 conclu remarks chapter 7 discourse functions 7.1 introduction 7.2 huangs taxonomy and zhangs "system" 7.3 the discourse functions 7.3.1 the initiation function 7.3.2 the continuation function 7.3.3 the conclu function 7.3.4 the correction function 7.4 conclu remarks chapter 8 summary and conclusions 8.1 introduction 8.2 the main arguments 8.2.1 systemic functional orientation 8.2.2 a tentative account 8.2.3 challenging the restrictions in the eet construction 8.2.4 four types of eet constructions 8.2.5 the expanded work of estential enhanced theme 8.2.6 the semantics of the verbs in the eet construction 8.2.7 discourse functions 8.3 follow-up research 8.4 conclu remarks references
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