| Abstract & Key Words in English | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract & Key Words in Chinese | 第6-11页 |
| Chapter I Introduction | 第11-24页 |
| ·Preliminaries | 第11-17页 |
| ·Periphrasis as a Rhetorical Device | 第11-12页 |
| ·Periphrasis Specified in the Thesis | 第12-16页 |
| ·Terms to Be Employed in the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| ·Theoretical Background | 第17-22页 |
| ·A Cognitive View on the Relationship between Syntax and Semantics | 第17页 |
| ·Force Dynamics and Causal Chain Model | 第17-19页 |
| ·Cognitive Image for Syntactic Structures | 第19-22页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter IIA Brief Review of English Verb Periphrasis Research | 第24-30页 |
| ·Syntactic Motivations | 第24-26页 |
| ·Freeing Verbs of the Restrictions of Grammatical Categories | 第24-25页 |
| ·Enhancing the Expressive Ability of English Language | 第25-26页 |
| ·Pragmatic Motivation | 第26-28页 |
| ·Rhetorical Motivation | 第28-29页 |
| ·Summary | 第29-30页 |
| Chapter III Cognitive Structures of General Verbs in the Periphrastic Structures | 第30-43页 |
| ·Expressions of Possession Relationship | 第30-37页 |
| ·Cognitive Structure of Four Verbs | 第30-34页 |
| ·Similarities and Differences | 第34-37页 |
| ·Expressions of Positional and Physical Change | 第37-40页 |
| ·Expressions of Exchange | 第40-41页 |
| ·Summary | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter IV A Cognitive Approach to the Nominalization of Original Verbs in the Process of Periphrasis | 第43-47页 |
| ·Classification of Original Verbs | 第43-44页 |
| ·Nominalization of Original Verbs | 第44-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter V A Holistic Analysis of English Verb Periphrasis | 第47-53页 |
| ·Original Verbs with Periphrastic Forms | 第48-50页 |
| ·Semantic Contribution of General Verbs to Periphrastic Expressions | 第50-51页 |
| ·Psychological Motivation of English Verb Periphrasis | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter VI Conclusions & Remaining Issues | 第53-57页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第54-55页 |
| ·Remaining Issues | 第55-57页 |
| Bibliography | 第57-60页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第60-61页 |
| 湖南师范大学学位论文原创性声明 | 第61页 |
