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Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Object of Study 1.2 Problems Waiting for Answers 1.3 Overview of the Book and Main Chapter Summaries Chapter Two Adjectival Adverbials in Mandarin 2.1 Status of the Adjectives in front of Verbs 2.2 Classification of Adjectival Adverbials 2.3 Researches on -De 2.4 Reduplication of adjectives 2.5 Researches on AAs in Zheng (2000) 2.6 Syntactic Research on AAs 2.7 Semantic Research on AAs 2.8 Summary Chapter Three Event Semantics and Aspectual Feature of Predicates 3.1 Modification Relation 3.2 Event Semantics 3.3 Classification of Predicates 3.4 The Nature and Basic Elements of Event 3.5 Aspectual Shift 3.6 Further Development of Neo-Davidsonian Approach 3.7 Summary Chapter Four Clarification and Reclassification of AAs 4.1 The Nature of Adjectival Adverbials 4.2 Criteria for Classification of AAs 4.3 Subject-oriented AAs 4.4 Object-oriented AAs 4.5 VP-oriented AAs 4.6 Clause-oriented AAs 4.7 Summary Chapter Five Semantic Analysis of AAs 5.1 Features of Each Kind of AAs 5.2 Formalizing the Features of AAs 5.3 -De 5.4 Semantic derivation process of sentences containing AAs 5.5 AAs with Multi Orientations 5.6 Beyond Compositionality 5.7 Summary Chapter Six Conclusive Remarks 6.1 Important and Innovative Features of the Research 6.2 Further Questions References Acknowledgements