| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| Contents | 第10-12页 |
| List of Tables | 第12-13页 |
| List of Figures | 第13-14页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-19页 |
| ·General Introduction to the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Objectives and Necessity of the Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第19-38页 |
| ·Review of Studies of English DC | 第19-30页 |
| ·The Structural Approach to English DC | 第22页 |
| ·The Formalist Approach to English DC | 第22-24页 |
| ·The Cognitive Approach to English DC | 第24-30页 |
| ·Review of Studies of Chinese DC | 第30-35页 |
| ·The Structural Approach to Chinese DC | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Formalist Approach to Chinese DC | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Cognitive Approach to Chinese DC | 第34-35页 |
| ·Review of Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese DCs | 第35-36页 |
| ·Originality of the Research | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Three Research Design | 第38-41页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第38页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第38-40页 |
| ·Procedures for Analysis | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussions | 第41-73页 |
| ·Overall Features of the Use of English and Chinese Giving-type DCs | 第41-63页 |
| ·The Frequency of English and Chinese Giving-type Ditransitive Verbs | 第41-46页 |
| ·Role Analysis of Agent Argument of English and Chinese Giving-type DCs | 第46-50页 |
| ·Role Analysis of Recipient Argument of English and Chinese Giving-type DCs | 第50-53页 |
| ·Role Analysis of Patient Argument of English and Chinese Giving-type DCs | 第53-57页 |
| ·Typical Sequence of "give/gei" DC with Typical or Atypica Participants in the Corpora | 第57-63页 |
| ·The Extensional Mechanism of Engiish and Chinese Giving-type DCs | 第63-71页 |
| ·Extension of Prototypical Agent and Recipient | 第63-66页 |
| ·Extension of Prototypical Patient | 第66-70页 |
| ·Extension of Transferring Pattern | 第70-71页 |
| ·Summary | 第71-73页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第73-78页 |
| ·Summary of Major Findings | 第73-76页 |
| ·Implications of the Study | 第76页 |
| ·Limitations of the Research and Suggestions for Further Study | 第76-78页 |
| Works Cited | 第78-82页 |
| Publicaitons | 第82页 |
