| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-15页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第15-19页 |
| ·Background of the Research | 第15-17页 |
| ·Significance of the Research | 第17-18页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第19-35页 |
| ·The Existence of the Way Construction | 第19-21页 |
| ·The Interpretation of the Way Construction | 第21-27页 |
| ·Two different senses | 第21页 |
| ·The means interpretation: Creation of a path | 第21-24页 |
| ·The manner interpretation: Move along a path | 第24-26页 |
| ·Relation between means and manner interpretation | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Semantic Constraints of the Way Construction | 第27-29页 |
| ·Jackendoff?s constraints | 第27-28页 |
| ·Goldberg?s constraints | 第28-29页 |
| ·Current Studies at Home and Abroad | 第29-34页 |
| ·The study of way construction abroad | 第29-31页 |
| ·The study of way construction at home | 第31-34页 |
| ·The Grey Area to be Studied | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Three THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第35-49页 |
| ·Usage-based Theory | 第35-38页 |
| ·The background of usage-based theory | 第35-36页 |
| ·Assumptions of usage-based theory | 第36-38页 |
| ·Construction in Usage-based Theory | 第38-45页 |
| ·The definition of construction | 第38-42页 |
| ·The categorization of construction | 第42-43页 |
| ·The productivity of construction | 第43-44页 |
| ·The analogy of construction | 第44-45页 |
| ·Implication of the usage-based Theory | 第45-49页 |
| Chapter Four RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 第49-61页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第49页 |
| ·A Quantitative Corpus-based Approach | 第49-50页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第50-52页 |
| ·Working corpus | 第50-51页 |
| ·Research procedure | 第51-52页 |
| ·Variability-based Neighbor Clustering | 第52-54页 |
| ·Collostructional Analysis | 第54-59页 |
| ·Distinctive collexeme analysis | 第55-56页 |
| ·Diachronic distinctive collexeme analysis | 第56-59页 |
| ·The Statistical Analysis Tool | 第59-61页 |
| Chapter Five RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第61-81页 |
| ·Data Periodization | 第61-63页 |
| ·Collexemes in the Way Construction | 第63-67页 |
| ·Raw frequencies of the verb collexeme | 第63页 |
| ·Collostructional strength of the verb collexeme | 第63-67页 |
| ·Verbs in the Way Construction | 第67-73页 |
| ·Classifications of Verbs in the Way construction | 第68-70页 |
| ·Characteristics of Verbs in the Way construction | 第70-73页 |
| ·Diachronic Development of the Way Construction | 第73-81页 |
| ·The semantic change of the way construction | 第73-75页 |
| ·The productivity of the way construction | 第75-77页 |
| ·The metaphorical motion of the way construction | 第77-81页 |
| Chapter Six CONCLUSION | 第81-85页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Research | 第81-82页 |
| ·Implications of the Research | 第82-83页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第83-85页 |
| REFERENCES | 第85-95页 |
| 附录： 作者在攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文 | 第95页 |
