| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| ·The Purposes and Significance of the Thesis | 第10-11页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第12-28页 |
| ·Construction Grammar (Fillmore, Kay et al.) | 第12页 |
| ·Cognitive Grammar as a Construction Grammar | 第12-13页 |
| ·Radical Construction Grammar | 第13-14页 |
| ·Construction Grammar by Adele E. Goldberg | 第14-15页 |
| ·Advantages of the Construction Grammar by Adele E. Goldberg | 第15-28页 |
| ·Implausible Verb Senses Are Avoided | 第15-17页 |
| ·Circularity Is Avoided | 第17-18页 |
| ·Semantic Parsimony | 第18-19页 |
| ·Compositionality Is Preserved | 第19-22页 |
| ·Supportive evidence from Sentence Processing | 第22-24页 |
| ·Supportive Evidence from Child Language Acquisition | 第24-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Advantages of the Construction Grammar Based on Chinese and EnglishData | 第28-46页 |
| ·Further Demonstration of the Basic Principles of Cognitive Linguistics | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Objectiveness Based on Empirical Data | 第29-30页 |
| ·Equal Attention to Constructions with Different Frequencies | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Successful Explanation of the Universals of Language | 第31页 |
| ·Conformity to the Process of Children Language Acquisition | 第31-32页 |
| ·Construction Grammar as a Dynamic Process | 第32-33页 |
| ·Good Explanation of Motivation for Grammaticalization | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Definition of Grammaticalizaion | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Explanation from the Construction Grammar Approach | 第34页 |
| ·The Conversion of Words from Memetics and the CG Prospective | 第34-44页 |
| ·Definition of Conversion | 第34-37页 |
| ·Main Types of Conversion in Current English and Chinese | 第37-38页 |
| ·Introduction to Memes | 第38-42页 |
| ·Strong Memes and Weak Memes | 第42-43页 |
| ·The Memetic and the CG Approach to the Conversion of Words | 第43-44页 |
| ·The Flexible Use of Verbs | 第44-46页 |
| Chapter 4 The Limitations of CG | 第46-52页 |
| ·The Improper Extension of the Term "Construction" | 第46-47页 |
| ·Failure in Reflecting the Understanding Process of the Users | 第47-48页 |
| ·Failure in Explaining the Differences of a Construction Across Languages | 第48-50页 |
| ·The Limited Applicable Constructions | 第50-51页 |
| ·Indefiniteness of Grammatical Construction Standard | 第51-52页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-57页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第57页 |
