| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-21页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第21-29页 |
| ·DENOMINAL VERBS | 第21-22页 |
| ·BACKGROUND AND STATUS QUO | 第22-24页 |
| ·OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY | 第24页 |
| ·METHODOLOGY AND DATABASE | 第24-26页 |
| ·ORGANIZATION OF THE CHAPTERS | 第26-29页 |
| CHAPTER 2 DATA OBSERVATION AND QUESTIONS RAISED | 第29-51页 |
| ·CLARK & CLARK’S CATEGORIZATION OF ENGLISH DENOMINAL VERBS | 第29-33页 |
| ·Locatum Verbs | 第29-30页 |
| ·Location Verbs | 第30页 |
| ·Duration Verbs | 第30-31页 |
| ·Agent Verbs | 第31页 |
| ·Experiencer Verbs | 第31页 |
| ·Goal Verbs | 第31-32页 |
| ·Source Verbs | 第32页 |
| ·Instrument Verbs | 第32页 |
| ·Miscellaneous Verbs | 第32-33页 |
| ·ENGLISH DENOMINAL VERBS IN CHILD LANGUAGE | 第33页 |
| ·DENOMINAL VERBS IN MODERN CHINESE | 第33-36页 |
| ·Criteria Delimiting Denominal Verbs in Modern Chinese | 第33-35页 |
| ·Data of Denominal Verbs in Modern Chinese | 第35-36页 |
| ·OBSERVATIONS ON DATA AND QUESTIONS RAISED | 第36-49页 |
| ·On Non-metaphorical Use of Denominal Verbs | 第36-37页 |
| ·Observation on Clark & Clark’s Semantic Representation | 第37-43页 |
| ·Different Constraints upon Denominal Verbs | 第43-48页 |
| ·The Attenuation Feature of Denominal Verbs | 第48-49页 |
| ·A BRIEF SUMMARY | 第49-51页 |
| CHAPTER 3 LITERATURE REVIEW | 第51-75页 |
| ·INTRODUCTION | 第51-52页 |
| ·SYNTACTIC ACCOUNT | 第52-57页 |
| ·A Review of Lexical Argument Structure Account | 第52-55页 |
| ·Evaluation of Hale & Keyser’s Syntactic Account | 第55-57页 |
| ·SEMANTIC ACCOUNT | 第57-61页 |
| ·A Review of Kiparsky’s Semantic Account | 第57-59页 |
| ·Evaluation of Kiparsky’s Semantic Account | 第59-61页 |
| ·PRAGMATIC ACCOUNT | 第61-67页 |
| ·A Review of Clark & Clark’s Pragmatic Account | 第61-64页 |
| ·Evaluation of Clark & Clark’s Pragmatic Account | 第64-67页 |
| ·COGNITIVE STUDIES OF DENOMINAL VERBS | 第67-73页 |
| ·A Review of Radden & Kovecses and Wang’s Metonymic Explanations | 第67-70页 |
| ·Evaluation of Radden & Kovecses and Wang’s Metonymic Explanations | 第70-73页 |
| ·A BRIEF SUMMARY | 第73-75页 |
| CHAPTER 4 THE DYNAMIC CONSTRUAL APPROACH TO MEANING | 第75-115页 |
| ·ARGUING FOR A COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS APPROACH | 第75-78页 |
| ·CONCEPT AND CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE | 第78-84页 |
| ·The Importance of Concept and Categorization | 第78-79页 |
| ·Conceptual Structure and Prototype Categorization | 第79-84页 |
| ·THE DYNAMIC CONSTRUAL APPROACH TO MEANING | 第84-112页 |
| ·Arguing Against the Assumptions of Traditional Approaches | 第84-87页 |
| ·The Dynamic Construal Approach to the Meaning of Nouns | 第87-112页 |
| ·A BRIEF SUMMARY | 第112-115页 |
| CHAPTER 5 THE DYNAMIC CONSTRUAL APPROACH TO DENOMINAL VERBSⅠ | 第115-163页 |
| ·THE DYNAMIC CONSTRUAL APPROACH TO NOUNS AND VERBS | 第115-125页 |
| ·Grammatical Meaning and Lexical Meaning | 第115-117页 |
| ·Langacker’s Approach to Nouns and Verbs | 第117-119页 |
| ·Image Schemas and Schematic Representation of Nouns and Verbs | 第119-125页 |
| ·DYNAMIC CONSTRUALS AND THE SCHEMATIC GRAMMATICAL MEANING OF DENOMINAL VERBS | 第125-161页 |
| ·SELF-MOVING ANIMATE Image Schema and CAUSED-TO-MOVE INANIMATE Image Schema | 第125-128页 |
| ·CAUSED-TO-MOVE INANIMATE + GOAL Image Schemas,Profile, Summary/Sequential Scanning, and Locatum and Location Verbs | 第128-131页 |
| ·Qualia Structure and Asymmetric Conceptual Dependent Relatin | 第131-138页 |
| ·CAUSED-TO-MOVE INANIMATE + PART-WHOLE Image Schema, Profile, Summary/Sequential Scanning, Locatum and LocationVerbs of Removal, and Verbs of Crops | 第138-142页 |
| ·CAUSED-TO-MOVE INANIMATE + GOAL Image Schema,Profile, Summary/Sequential Scanning, Goal Verbs and Source Verbs | 第142-149页 |
| ·CAUSED-TO-MOVE INANIMATE + GOAL Image Schema,Profile, Summary/Sequential Scanning, and Instrument Verbs | 第149-151页 |
| ·SELF-MOVING ANIMATE + GOAL Image Schema, Profile,Summary/Sequential Scanning, Agent Verbs, Experiencer Verbs, and Verbs of Meals | 第151-155页 |
| ·SELF-MOVING ANIMATE + CONTAINER-CONTENT Image Schema, Profile, Summary/Sequential Scanning, Verbs of Place, and Duration Verbs | 第155-161页 |
| ·A BRIEF SUMMARY | 第161-163页 |
| CHAPTER 6 THE DYNAMIC CONSTRUAL APPROACH TO DENOMINAL VERBSⅡ | 第163-189页 |
| ·DYNAMIC CONSTRUALS AND SPECIFIC LEXICAL MEANING OF DENOMINAL VERBS | 第163-174页 |
| ·Metonymy and Specific Lexical Meaning of Denominal Verbs | 第163-171页 |
| ·Metonymy, Metaphor, and Specific Lexical Meaning of Denominal Verbs | 第171-174页 |
| ·REFERENTIAL AND PREDICATIVE USE OF DONOMINAL VERBS | 第174-178页 |
| ·CONTEXTUAL RELEVANCE AND CONSTRUAL OPERATIONS | 第178-180页 |
| ·THE DYNAMIC CONSTRUAL APPROACH TO DENOMINAL VERBS IN CHILD LANGUAGE | 第180-183页 |
| ·A UNIFIED ACCOUNT OF LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY, EXPERIENTIALIST AND CONCEPTUALIST SEMANTICS | 第183-186页 |
| ·A BRIEF SUMMARY | 第186-189页 |
| CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION | 第189-205页 |
| ·MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE STUDY | 第189-195页 |
| ·THEORETICAL APPLICATION OF THE DYNAMIC CONSTRUAL APPROACH | 第195-200页 |
| ·The Schematic Grammatical Meaning of Deverbal Nouns | 第195-199页 |
| ·The Dynamic Construal Approach to Other Innovative Uses of Nouns | 第199-200页 |
| ·GENERAL CONCLUSIONS OF THE STUDY | 第200-202页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS OF THIS STUDY AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH | 第202-205页 |
| APPENDIX | 第205-213页 |
| REFERENCES | 第213-224页 |
