| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第12-17页 |
| 1.1 Significance of the Current Research | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2 Objectives and Methodology of the Research | 第13-15页 |
| 1.3 Organization of the Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第17-27页 |
| 2.1 A Review of Construction Grammar (CxG) | 第17-20页 |
| 2.1.1 A brief introduction of CxG | 第17-18页 |
| 2.1.2 Constructions in CxG | 第18-19页 |
| 2.1.3 Advantages of CxG | 第19-20页 |
| 2.2 A Review of the Definition of Negative Words | 第20-21页 |
| 2.3 Previous Studies on Related Constructions | 第21-25页 |
| 2.3.1 Previous studies on double negative constructions | 第21-23页 |
| 2.3.2 Previous studies on rhetorical question constructions | 第23页 |
| 2.3.3 Previous studies on redundant constructions | 第23-25页 |
| 2.4 Summary | 第25-27页 |
| CHAPTER THREE DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF CONSTRUCTIONS CONTAINING DOUBLE NEGATION | 第27-42页 |
| 3.1 Data Description | 第27页 |
| 3.2 Introduction | 第27-28页 |
| 3.3 Constructions Containing N1 + N2 in Chinese and English | 第28-34页 |
| 3.3.1 Analysis of the construction bu shi bu X | 第29-30页 |
| 3.3.2 Analysis of the construction bu shi mei (you) X | 第30-31页 |
| 3.3.3 Analysis of the Construction mei you bu (shi) X | 第31-32页 |
| 3.3.4 Analysis of the construction mei you X bu Y | 第32-33页 |
| 3.3.5 Analysis of the construction bu M bu X | 第33页 |
| 3.3.6 Analysis of the construction“no one/ nobody/ nothing V not Y”.. 22 3.3.7 Analysis of the construction“not without X” | 第33-34页 |
| 3.3.7 Analysis of the construction “not without X” | 第34页 |
| 3.3.8 Analysis of the construction“not X without Y” | 第34页 |
| 3.4 Constructions Containing“N + Words with Negative Contents”in Chinese and English | 第34-37页 |
| 3.4.1 Analysis of the construction“not un-X” | 第35-36页 |
| 3.4.2 Analysis of the construction“no un-X” | 第36-37页 |
| 3.5 Constructions Containing“N + Negative Structures”in Chinese and English | 第37-39页 |
| 3.6 Cognitive Mechanisms of Constructions Containing Double Negation 28 | 第39-41页 |
| 3.6.1 Cognitive mechanisms of euphemistic constructions | 第39-40页 |
| 3.6.2 Cognitive mechanisms of emphatic constructions | 第40-41页 |
| 3.7 Summary | 第41-42页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF CONSTRUCTIONS CONTAINING RHETORICAL QUESTIONS | 第42-47页 |
| 4.1 Syntactic Features of Constructions of Rhetorical Questions 31 | 第42-44页 |
| 4.2 Semantic Features of the Constructions of Rhetorical Questions 33 4.3 Cognitive Mechanisms of the Rhetorical Question Constructions | 第44-46页 |
| 4.3 Cognitive Mechanisms of the Rhetorical Question Constructions | 第46-47页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF CONSTRUCTIONS CONTAINING REDUNDANT NEGATION | 第47-54页 |
| 5.1 Analysis of the Construction hao bu AP 36 5.2 Analysis of the Construction Bu yao tai AP | 第47-49页 |
| 5.2 Analysis of the Construction Bu yao tai AP | 第49-50页 |
| 5.3 Analysis of the Construction“can’t be too X” | 第50-52页 |
| 5.4 Analysis of Redundant Negation in Sentences | 第52-53页 |
| 5.5 Analysis of Three Special Chinese Constructions | 第53页 |
| 5.6 Summary | 第53-54页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第54-57页 |
| 6.1 Major Findings of the Research | 第54-55页 |
| 6.2 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study | 第55-57页 |
| References | 第57-60页 |
