| Abstract | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-12页 |
| Chapter 1 General Introduction | 第12-20页 |
| ·What is the body part ascension construction? | 第12-15页 |
| ·What is motivation? Why ‘cognitive-functional’? | 第15-17页 |
| ·Target of the research and its potential theoretical or practical value | 第17-18页 |
| ·Methodology for the research | 第18页 |
| ·Structure of the thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第20-35页 |
| ·An overview: from traditional construction to construction grammar | 第20-23页 |
| ·Functional approach to Motivations | 第23-26页 |
| ·Markedness and economic motivation | 第23-24页 |
| ·Iconicity | 第24-25页 |
| ·Competing motivations | 第25-26页 |
| ·Cognitive approach to Motivations | 第26-32页 |
| ·Major hypotheses | 第26-28页 |
| ·Conceptualization and construal operations | 第28-30页 |
| ·Entrenchment and grammaticalization | 第30-32页 |
| ·What has already been done and what problems remain to be solved | 第32-35页 |
| Chapter 3 Syntactic-semantic Interface of BPAC | 第35-43页 |
| ·Introduction | 第35页 |
| ·Syntactic-semantic structure parsing | 第35-40页 |
| ·Brief summary | 第40-43页 |
| Chapter4 Constructional Analysis | 第43-52页 |
| ·Introduction | 第43-44页 |
| ·Relations within constructions | 第44-45页 |
| ·Relations across constructions | 第45-51页 |
| ·A logical analysis | 第46-48页 |
| ·A structural analysis | 第48-49页 |
| ·A metaphorical extension analysis | 第49-51页 |
| ·Brief summary | 第51-52页 |
| Chapter 5 Investigation on Motivations | 第52-62页 |
| ·Introduction | 第52页 |
| ·Functional perspective | 第52-54页 |
| ·Cognitive perspective | 第54-61页 |
| ·Analysis of the process of conceptualization | 第55-57页 |
| ·Analysis of gestalt cognition | 第57-59页 |
| ·Analysis of the process of grammaticalization | 第59-61页 |
| ·Brief summary | 第61-62页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion and Implications | 第62-65页 |
| ·Brief summary of major findings | 第62-63页 |
| ·Implications | 第63-64页 |
| ·Suggestions for further studies | 第64-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-70页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第70-72页 |
| 在读期间公开发表论文(著)及科研情况等 | 第72页 |