This paper argues that agent acts as a principal element(subject argument)when an action verb forms its verb-centered construction.

This thesis carried on the investigation on "很" to be the direct modifier of the action verb "支持" and such similar verbs, apart from adjective and mental verb of affection, it refers to the semantics and grammatical feature.

Direction is one of the important features when the action happens in space, so it is very important to observe the space feature of action from the perspective of direction and take the one-syllable action verbs as examples to study the language embodiment of direction which is the space feature of action in objective world .

One is the rationality after the verb wish followed by the action verbs and the state verbs.

Guided by the basic assumptions of cognitive semantics, this dissertation conducts a survey on the semantic relationships between action verbs and the Chinese static existential construction in order to detect verb selection restrictions of this construction.

In this paper, we examine the properties of ergative verbs in English and Chinese arguing that the passivization of ergative in CIL( Chinese-English Interlanguage) provides a clear example of how ILs Interlanguage Speakers take on a life of their own.

The paper analyzes the difference between middle verbs and ergative verbs in argument structures at first:in the former the event argument is suppressed,but the latter does not affect that argument.

The Ergative Hypothesis proposed by Perlmutter (1978) distinguishes two classes of intransitive verbs --- unergative verbs (UV) and ergative verbs (EV).

Study of valence of factitive verbs in modern Chinese;

Due to the different argument structures of entries, its syntax features differ greatly, especially the second one can be used as an ergative verb and transitive verb alternatively.