| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第6-8页 |
| List of figures and table | 第8-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-13页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第13-22页 |
| ·Introductory remarks | 第13-15页 |
| ·Overview of English adjective syntactic constructions | 第15-16页 |
| ·Scope of study | 第16页 |
| ·Necessity and rationality of study | 第16-18页 |
| ·Objective of study | 第18页 |
| ·Methods of study | 第18-19页 |
| ·Organization of paper | 第19-20页 |
| ·Abbreviations of some terms | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Literature review | 第22-36页 |
| ·Different approaches to study of syntactic constructions | 第22-25页 |
| ·Traditional grammar | 第22-23页 |
| ·Structural linguistics | 第23页 |
| ·Generative linguistics | 第23-24页 |
| ·Functional linguistics | 第24页 |
| ·Cognitive linguistics | 第24-25页 |
| ·Study of ASCs | 第25-36页 |
| ·Hornby’s classifications of ASCs | 第26-28页 |
| ·Zhang Daozhen’s (张道真) classifications of ASCs | 第28页 |
| ·Quirk’s classifications of ASCs | 第28-30页 |
| ·Zhang Zhenbang’s (章振邦) classifications of ASCs | 第30-32页 |
| ·Classifications listed in Collins Cobuild Grammar Patterns: Nouns and Adjectives | 第32-33页 |
| ·Classifications put forward by Wang Xishan (王希山) and Yuan Honggeg （袁洪庚） | 第33-34页 |
| ·Other studies carried out by recent scholars | 第34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Brief introduction to Construction Grammar and stereotypical relations | 第36-50页 |
| ·General remarks | 第36-37页 |
| ·Definitions and terms concerning Construction Grammar | 第37-42页 |
| ·Concept of construction | 第37-38页 |
| ·Construction Grammar | 第38-39页 |
| ·Syntactic views of Construction Grammar | 第39-40页 |
| ·Nature of Construction Meaning | 第40-42页 |
| ·Stereotypical relations | 第42-48页 |
| ·General remarks | 第42页 |
| ·Appearance of notion of stereotypical relations | 第42-43页 |
| ·Definition of stereotypical relations | 第43-46页 |
| ·Nature of stereotypical relations | 第46页 |
| ·Cognitive interpretation of stereotypical relations | 第46-47页 |
| ·Stereotypical relations and study of syntactic constructions | 第47-48页 |
| ·Summary | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ English NP + AP + to VP construction | 第50-63页 |
| ·General remarks | 第50页 |
| ·English NP + AP + to VP adjective sentence pattern as construction | 第50-51页 |
| ·Classification of English NP + AP + to VP construction | 第51-54页 |
| ·A subtype: entity attribute construction | 第54-57页 |
| ·Adjectives expressing volitional or modal meaning | 第54-55页 |
| ·Adjectives expressing emotions or mental states | 第55-56页 |
| ·Adjectives describing human characters | 第56页 |
| ·Adjectives expressing physical properties | 第56-57页 |
| ·Another subtype: event property construction | 第57-61页 |
| ·Adjectives expressing possibility or certainty | 第58-59页 |
| ·Adjectives referring to degrees of ease or comfort | 第59页 |
| ·Adjectives expressing speed | 第59-60页 |
| ·Adjectives expressing correctness or incorrectness | 第60-61页 |
| ·Summary | 第61-63页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Entity attribute construction | 第63-79页 |
| ·General remarks | 第63-64页 |
| ·Prototypical members of EAC | 第64页 |
| ·Syntactic symbolic representation and syntactic properties of EAC | 第64-68页 |
| ·Syntactic properties of EAC1 | 第65-66页 |
| ·Syntactic properties of EAC2 and EAC3 | 第66-67页 |
| ·Syntactic properties of EAC4 | 第67-68页 |
| ·Major semantic property of EAC | 第68-69页 |
| ·Correspondence between syntactic properties and major semantic property of EAC | 第69-70页 |
| ·Forming motivation of EAC | 第70-78页 |
| ·Stereotypical relations in EAC | 第71-72页 |
| ·Forming motivation of EAC1 | 第72-73页 |
| ·Forming motivation of EAC2 and EAC3 | 第73-75页 |
| ·Forming motivation of EAC4 | 第75-78页 |
| ·Summary | 第78-79页 |
| Chapter Ⅵ Event property construction | 第79-91页 |
| ·General remarks | 第79页 |
| ·Prototypical members of EPC | 第79-80页 |
| ·Syntactic symbolic representation and syntactic properties of EPC | 第80-83页 |
| ·Syntactic symbolic representation | 第80-81页 |
| ·Syntactic properties of EPC | 第81-83页 |
| ·Syntactic properties of EPC1, EPC3 and EPC4 | 第81-82页 |
| ·Syntactic properties of EPC2 | 第82-83页 |
| ·Major semantic property of EPC | 第83-84页 |
| ·Correspondence between syntactic and semantic properties of EPC | 第84-85页 |
| ·Forming motivation of EPC | 第85-89页 |
| ·Stereotypical relations in EPC | 第86-87页 |
| ·Forming motivation of EPC1, EPC3 and EPC4 | 第87-88页 |
| ·Forming motivation of EPC2 | 第88-89页 |
| ·Summary | 第89-91页 |
| Chapter Ⅶ Conclusion | 第91-95页 |
| ·General remarks | 第91-93页 |
| ·Unsolved problems and preceding studies | 第93-95页 |
| Bibliography | 第95-96页 |
