| Abstract (in Chinese) | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract (in English) | 第5-6页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-18页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第13-14页 |
| 1.2 Research Purpose and Significance of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| 1.3 Research Methodology | 第15-16页 |
| 1.4 Outline of This Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-26页 |
| 2.1 Traditional Linguistic Approaches to Ditransitive Construction | 第18-21页 |
| 2.1.1 The Structural Approach to Ditransitive Construction | 第18-19页 |
| 2.1.2 The Transformational Approach to Ditransitive Construction | 第19-21页 |
| 2.2 Cognitive Approach to Ditransitive Construction | 第21-23页 |
| 2.3 Previous S tudies on Use of Ditran sitive Construction by Chinese EnglishLearners | 第23-25页 |
| 2.4 Summary | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Foundation | 第26-37页 |
| 3.1 Tenets of Goldberg’s Construction Grammar | 第26-29页 |
| 3.1.1 Concept of Construction | 第26-27页 |
| 3.1.2 Interaction between Verbs and Constructions | 第27-28页 |
| 3.1.3 Advantages of the Construction Account | 第28-29页 |
| 3.2 Ditransitive Construction by Goldberg | 第29-37页 |
| 3.2.1 Conception of Ditransitive Construction | 第30-31页 |
| 3.2.2 Classification of Verbs in Ditransitive Construction | 第31-32页 |
| 3.2.3 Semantic Constraints on Arguments of Ditransitive Construction | 第32-37页 |
| Chapter Four Research Questions and Methodology | 第37-44页 |
| 4.1 Research Questions | 第37页 |
| 4.2 Corpora and Concordancer Used in This Study | 第37-40页 |
| 4.2.1 CLEC | 第37-38页 |
| 4.2.2 LOCNESS | 第38-39页 |
| 4.2.3 The Concordancer AntConc | 第39-40页 |
| 4.3 Data Collection and Processing | 第40-44页 |
| 4.3.1 Data Collection | 第40-41页 |
| 4.3.2 Data Processing | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter Five Results and Discussion | 第44-72页 |
| 5.1 Features of Ditransitive Constructi on by Chinese English Majors C omparedwith LOCNESS | 第44-61页 |
| 5.1.1 Features of Verb Type and Frequency with Ditransitive Construction | 第44-49页 |
| 5.1.2 Features of Construction Sense Distribution | 第49-52页 |
| 5.1.3 Features of Argument Distribution in Ditransitive Construction | 第52-61页 |
| 5.2 Features of Ditransitive Construction in Sub-corpora of CLEC | 第61-72页 |
| 5.2.1 Use of Verb Type and Frequency with Ditransitive Construction | 第62-63页 |
| 5.2.2 Production of Ditransitive Construction Sense | 第63-65页 |
| 5.2.3 Choice of Arguments in Ditransitive Construction | 第65-72页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第72-78页 |
| 6.1 Major Findings of the Study | 第72-74页 |
| 6.2 Pedagogical Implications of the Study | 第74-76页 |
| 6.3 Limitations of the Study and Suggestions for Further Study | 第76-78页 |
| Bibliography | 第78-80页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第80-81页 |
| About the Author | 第81页 |
