| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第6-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-14页 |
| CHAPTERⅠINTRODUCTION | 第14-18页 |
| 1.1 Background of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| 1.2 Objectives and Significance of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| 1.3 Methods of the Study | 第16-17页 |
| 1.4 Organization of the Study | 第17-18页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅱ LITERATURE REVIEW | 第18-23页 |
| 2.1 Researches on Causative Construction | 第18-20页 |
| 2.2 Grammatical Metonymic Research in Cross-Culture Comparison | 第20-21页 |
| 2.3 The Weakness of Previous Studies | 第21-22页 |
| 2.4 Summary | 第22-23页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ THE RATIONALE OF THE STUDY | 第23-34页 |
| 3.1 The Definitions of Grammatical Metonymy | 第23-25页 |
| 3.2 The Features of Grammatical Metonymy | 第25-27页 |
| 3.2.1 The Conceptuality of Grammatical Metonymy | 第25-26页 |
| 3.2.2 The Grammatical Effects of Grammatical Metonymy | 第26-27页 |
| 3.3 The Operational Model of Grammatical Metonymy | 第27-33页 |
| 3.3.1 The Working Mechanism of Conceptual Metonymy | 第27-29页 |
| 3.3.2 Panther & Thornburg’s Operating Model of Grammatical Metonymy | 第29-30页 |
| 3.3.3 Wu Shuqiong’s Operating Model of Grammatical Metonymy | 第30-33页 |
| 3.4 Summary | 第33-34页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅳ GRAMMATICAL METONYMIC ANALYSES OF CAUSATIVECONSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE | 第34-66页 |
| 4.1 The Cognitive Generation of Causative Construction and Its GrammaticalMetonymic Motivation | 第34-37页 |
| 4.1.1 The Cognitive Generation of Syntactic Structure | 第34-35页 |
| 4.1.2 The Cognitive Generation of Causative Construction | 第35-37页 |
| 4.1.3 Grammatical Metonymic Motivation of Causative Construction | 第37页 |
| 4.2 The Grammatical Metonymic Analyses of Causative Construction in Englishand Chinese | 第37-64页 |
| 4.2.1 Noun-Verb Conversion in Causative Construction and Its GrammaticalMetonymic Motivation | 第38-48页 |
| 4.2.2 Adjective-verb Conversion and Its Grammatical Metonymic Motivation | 第48-53页 |
| 4.2.3 The Inserted Verbs in Causative Construction and Its GrammaticalMetonymic Motivation | 第53-60页 |
| 4.2.4 Subject Change and Its Grammatical Metonymic Motivation | 第60-64页 |
| 4.3 Similarities and Differences between English and Chinese CausativeConstruction | 第64-65页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第65-66页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅴ CONCLUSION | 第66-68页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第66-67页 |
| 5.2 Implications of the Study | 第67页 |
| 5.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research | 第67-68页 |
| REFERENCES | 第68-73页 |
| APPENDIX | 第73-90页 |
