| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-19页 |
| ·The Definition of the Ditransitive Construction | 第13-15页 |
| ·The Significance of the Research | 第15-16页 |
| ·Aims of the Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第19-39页 |
| ·Structural Approach to Ditransitive Construction | 第19-22页 |
| ·Structural Approach to English Ditransitive Construction | 第20-21页 |
| ·Structural Approach to Chinese Ditransitive Construction | 第21-22页 |
| ·Transformational Generative Approach to Ditransitive Construction | 第22-27页 |
| ·Transformational Generative Approach to English Ditransitive Construction | 第23-25页 |
| ·Transformational Generative Approach to Chinese Ditransitive Construction | 第25-27页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach to Ditransitive Construction | 第27-33页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach to English Ditransitive Construction | 第27-29页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach to Chinese Ditransitive Construction | 第29-30页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach to Contrastive Studies of English Ditransitive Construction and its Chinese Counterpart | 第30-33页 |
| ·The Inadequacies of Previous Studies | 第33-37页 |
| Summary | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Background | 第39-51页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Construction Grammar | 第39-46页 |
| ·The Interaction Between Verbs and Constructions | 第42-44页 |
| ·The Polysemous Feature of Construction Meaning | 第44-45页 |
| ·Advantages of Construction Grammar | 第45-46页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Construal | 第46-49页 |
| ·Why (?) Construction Grammar and Other Related Cognitive Theories | 第49页 |
| Summary | 第49-51页 |
| Chapter Three Comparison of Ditransitive Constructions In English and Chinese | 第51-89页 |
| ·The Extension of Arguments | 第51-62页 |
| ·The Extension of Agent | 第53-57页 |
| ·The Extension of Recipient/Source | 第57-59页 |
| ·The Extension of Patient | 第59-62页 |
| ·The Ditransitive Verbs in English and Chinese | 第62-67页 |
| ·The Directional Meaning of the Ditransitive Construction | 第67-77页 |
| ·Right-oriented in English versus Bidirectional in Chinese | 第68-72页 |
| ·The Standard to Judge the Directional Meaning of the Chinese Construction with Non-directional Verbs | 第72-77页 |
| ·Construction Prototypes | 第77-81页 |
| ·The Prototype of the English Ditransitive Construction | 第78-79页 |
| ·The Prototype of Chinese Ditransitive Construction | 第79-81页 |
| ·Ambiguity | 第81-86页 |
| Summary | 第86-89页 |
| Chapter Four Motivations to Similarities and Differences | 第89-113页 |
| ·Regularities of the Objective World | 第89-93页 |
| ·Cognitive Motivations | 第93-106页 |
| ·Perspective and the Construction Meaning | 第94-98页 |
| ·Prominence | 第98-103页 |
| ·Scanning | 第103-106页 |
| ·Motivations of the Language System | 第106-111页 |
| ·Phonetic Restrictions | 第106-108页 |
| ·Lexical Influences | 第108-109页 |
| ·Grammatical Factors | 第109-111页 |
| Summary | 第111-113页 |
| Conclusion | 第113-119页 |
| Bibliography | 第119-127页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第127-128页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第128-129页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第129-131页 |
