This paper studies the merge order of complements of VP in the ditransitive construction within the latest minimalist framework proposed by Chomsky(2005a,2005b,2006).

In the English and Chinese ditransitive constructions that represent “intended transfer of patient from the agent to the recipient”, many of the verbs do not have the meaning of “transfer” outside the construction.

The central sense of ditransitive construction is held to involve transfer between a volitional agent and a willing recipient.

This thesis focuses on the "transfer" type Ditransitive Construction in modern Chinese.

According to Construction Grammar,daily “giving” experience is the cognitive foundation of ditransitive constructions,the ditransitive constructions formed by “verbs of giving” are prototypical cases,and the meaning of ditransitive construction is “Agency S intentionally transfers N2 to N1”.

As one of the most frequently used sentence patterns in various languages, ditransitive construction has claimed a special place in the linguistic studies at the syntactic-semantic interface and attracted much attention from scholars and linguists with different theoretical backgrounds.

Some researchers focus on the detailed analysis and description of linguistic entities; some focus on the correlation between the ditransitive construction and the corresponding dative construction.

The English ditransitive construction,with actual successful transfer as the central sense,typically implies that the(agent) argument acts to cause transfer of an object to a recipient.

From the perspective of discourse analysis based on Halliday’s systemic functional model, this paper argues that in E-C translation the analysis of transitivity structure and cohesive device in the source text plays a very important role in the accurate comprehension and faithful reproduction of its linguistic features and its profound implications underneath.