| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第13-20页 |
| ·Research background | 第13-17页 |
| ·Objectives and method of the study | 第17-18页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 2 A Brief Review of the Previous Study on Aspect both in English and Chinese | 第20-36页 |
| ·Introduction | 第20页 |
| ·Major concepts of aspect in English linguistics | 第20-27页 |
| ·Semantic interpretation of aspect | 第20-25页 |
| ·Grammatical aspect and lexical aspect in English | 第21-23页 |
| ·The two-tier model of lexical aspect representation | 第23-25页 |
| ·Interaction of grammatical and lexical aspects | 第25-27页 |
| ·Previous study of aspect in Chinese | 第27-33页 |
| ·An overview of the Chinese aspectual system | 第27-33页 |
| ·Grammatical aspect in Chinese | 第28-30页 |
| ·Lexical aspect in Chinese | 第30-33页 |
| ·The essence and the grammatical meaning of the progressive aspect | 第33-35页 |
| ·Summary | 第35-36页 |
| Chapter 3 A Brief Introduction to the Theories:Metonymy and Coercion | 第36-56页 |
| ·Introduction | 第36页 |
| ·Cognitive approach to metonymy | 第36-47页 |
| ·Metonymy is conceptual in nature | 第37-38页 |
| ·Metonymy is a cognitive process | 第38-39页 |
| ·Metonymy working in the same idealized cognitive model(ICM) | 第39-43页 |
| ·Classification of metonymy | 第43-47页 |
| ·Coercion | 第47-53页 |
| ·Definition of coercion | 第47页 |
| ·Interplay between constructional and lexical meaning | 第47-51页 |
| ·Construction meaning coerces lexical meaning | 第48-50页 |
| ·Lexical meaning coerces construction meaning | 第50-51页 |
| ·Aspectual coercion as operations on lexical aspect structure | 第51-53页 |
| ·The relationship between metonymy and coercion | 第53-55页 |
| ·Summary | 第55-56页 |
| Chapter 4 Contrastive Analysis of English and Chinese Progressive Construction from Metonymy and Coercion Perspective | 第56-88页 |
| ·Introduction | 第56-57页 |
| ·Contrastive analysis of the coercion and the underlying metonymic operation in English and Chinese progressive construction | 第57-83页 |
| ·The activities in the progressive construction | 第58-60页 |
| ·The statives in the progressive construction | 第60-68页 |
| ·The accomplishments in the progressive construction | 第68-74页 |
| ·The achievements in the progressive construction | 第74-80页 |
| ·The semelfactives in the progressive construction | 第80-83页 |
| ·Similarities and differences between the two language's progressive construction and the accounting for them | 第83-87页 |
| ·Summary | 第87-88页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第88-94页 |
| ·Major findings | 第88-91页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further research | 第91-94页 |
| References | 第94-99页 |
