| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Table of Contents | 第7-10页 |
| List of Figures | 第10-11页 |
| List of Tables | 第11-12页 |
| List of Abbreviations and Terms | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-16页 |
| ·Research background | 第13页 |
| ·Purpose and significance of the research | 第13-14页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-31页 |
| ·The traditional approach --- verb-centered view | 第16-19页 |
| ·Studies on the verb-centred view | 第17页 |
| ·Inadequacy of the verb-centred view | 第17-19页 |
| ·The constructional approach --- construction-centered view | 第19-29页 |
| ·The definition of construction | 第20-21页 |
| ·Argument structure construction | 第21-24页 |
| ·The ditransitive construction | 第23页 |
| ·The caused-motion construction | 第23-24页 |
| ·The resultative construction | 第24页 |
| ·The interactive relationship between verbs and constructions | 第24-28页 |
| ·Different verbs in the same construction | 第25-28页 |
| ·The same verb in different constructions | 第28页 |
| ·Inadequacy of the construction-centered view | 第28-29页 |
| ·Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis | 第29-30页 |
| ·About this study | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter Three An Analysis of the Interaction between Verbs and Constructions Based on Corpus | 第31-63页 |
| ·Research question one and two | 第31页 |
| ·Corpora used in the research | 第31-33页 |
| ·CLEC | 第31-32页 |
| ·BROWN | 第32-33页 |
| ·Data collection | 第33-35页 |
| ·Data processing | 第35-37页 |
| ·Log-likelihood value | 第35页 |
| ·Log-likelihood calculation | 第35-37页 |
| ·Results | 第37-57页 |
| ·Different verbs in the same argument structure construction | 第37-43页 |
| ·Distribution of different verbs in the ditransitive construction between CLEC and BROWN | 第37-40页 |
| ·Distribution of different verbs in the caused-motion constructionbetween CLEC and BROWN | 第40-42页 |
| ·Distribution of different verbs in the ditransitive construction in subcorpora of CLEC | 第42-43页 |
| ·Same verbs in different argument structure constructions | 第43-46页 |
| ·Make | 第43-44页 |
| ·Show/Send/Bring/Take/Throw | 第44-45页 |
| ·Ask | 第45-46页 |
| ·Interaction between verbs and constructions | 第46-54页 |
| ·Match between verbs and constructions | 第46-50页 |
| ·The constructional coercion | 第50-53页 |
| ·The verbal coercion | 第53-54页 |
| ·Failure of interaction between verbs and constructions | 第54-57页 |
| ·Take in the ditransitive construction | 第55页 |
| ·Help/show in the caused-motion construction | 第55-57页 |
| ·Discussion | 第57-63页 |
| ·Discussion of research question one | 第57-58页 |
| ·Discussion of research question two | 第58-60页 |
| ·Discussion of the constructional hierarchy | 第60-61页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第61-63页 |
| Chapter Four Its Application in Teaching English Writing | 第63-69页 |
| ·Research question three | 第63页 |
| ·Teaching constructions and writing practice | 第63-66页 |
| ·Results and discussion | 第66-69页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第69-71页 |
| ·Major findings | 第69-70页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions | 第70-71页 |
| References | 第71-75页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第75-76页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第76-77页 |
| Publications | 第77页 |
