Projectionist and constructionist approach attempt to semantically discover the determining factors of syntactic realization from lexicon and syntax,respectively.However,quantitative analyses of corpus show that English and Chinese statechange events generally abide by basic orders of animacy in semantic types and configuration patterns of their subject and object.Therefore,syntactic realization of state-change events is not only determined by the semantic structure of verbs and relevant construction meaning,but closely related to the animacy o...