| ABSTRACT | 第1-6页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第6-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·The Objectives of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Significance of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two A Relevant Literature Review of The Study of The Genitive Case | 第15-27页 |
| ·The forms expressing possession | 第15-17页 |
| ·The form of S-genitive | 第15-16页 |
| ·The form of Of-construction | 第16页 |
| ·The preposition With | 第16-17页 |
| ·The word whose | 第17页 |
| ·Verbs denoting possession | 第17页 |
| ·The analysis of the semantic relations within genitive constructions | 第17-22页 |
| ·Possessive genitive | 第18-19页 |
| ·Subjective genitive | 第19页 |
| ·Objective genitive | 第19-20页 |
| ·Genitive of origin | 第20页 |
| ·Descriptive genitive | 第20-21页 |
| ·Genitive of measure | 第21页 |
| ·Genitive of attribute | 第21页 |
| ·Partitive genitive | 第21-22页 |
| ·Partee’s view on Genitive Construction | 第22-23页 |
| ·Hawkins’semantic hierarchy of the genitive head | 第23-25页 |
| ·Langacker’s reference-point model | 第25页 |
| ·Taylor’s view of symbolic nature of language | 第25-26页 |
| ·Summary | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter Three Cognitive Categorization and The Applications of Prototype Theory | 第27-36页 |
| ·Aristotle’s classical theory | 第27-28页 |
| ·Wittgenstein’s Family Resemblance Theory | 第28-29页 |
| ·Rosch’s Prototype Theory | 第29-32页 |
| ·Holistic Perception | 第32-33页 |
| ·Basic level category and its features | 第33-34页 |
| ·Framework analysis | 第34-35页 |
| ·Summary | 第35-36页 |
| Chapter Four A Cognitive Analysis of Possessive Relation | 第36-61页 |
| ·The prototype for the possessive relations | 第36-40页 |
| ·The schematic meaning of the prenominal S | 第40-50页 |
| ·The symbolic nature of language | 第40-42页 |
| ·Basic idea of domain | 第42-43页 |
| ·NP1 as the reference point | 第43-46页 |
| ·Different schematic meanings between the possessive morpheme s and the verb have | 第46-50页 |
| ·The schematic meaning of the postnominal of | 第50-53页 |
| ·Distinctions between the S–construction and the Of–construction | 第53-60页 |
| ·Constraints on action and cognitive nouns in possessives | 第55-58页 |
| ·Acceptability as topics | 第58-60页 |
| ·Summary | 第60-61页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第61-63页 |
| References | 第63-66页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第66页 |
