| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-17页 |
| ·The Chinese V-O verb—target of the study | 第10-13页 |
| ·Defining the Chinese V-O verb | 第10-11页 |
| ·The features of the Chinese V-O verb | 第11-13页 |
| ·Rationale of this study | 第13-15页 |
| ·Purposes of this study | 第15页 |
| ·Structure of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Previous Researches on the Chinese V-O verb | 第17-25页 |
| ·Introduction | 第17页 |
| ·The transitivization of the Chinese V-O verb | 第17-19页 |
| ·The motivations for the increasing number of the transitivized V-O verb | 第19-21页 |
| ·Social linguistic perspective | 第19-20页 |
| ·Pragmatic perspective | 第20-21页 |
| ·Historic linguistic perspective | 第21页 |
| ·The semantic features of the objects taken by the Chinese V-O verb | 第21-22页 |
| ·The conditions and motivations of the transitivization of the V-O verb | 第22-24页 |
| ·Summary | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第25-32页 |
| ·Introduction | 第25页 |
| ·Main approaches of cognitive linguistics | 第25-29页 |
| ·The prominence view | 第26-28页 |
| ·The attentional view | 第28-29页 |
| ·Construction grammar and laws of proximity and similarity | 第29-31页 |
| ·Construction grammar | 第29-30页 |
| ·Laws of proximity and similarity | 第30-31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31-32页 |
| Chapter Four A Corpus Based Study of the Chinese V-O verb | 第32-47页 |
| ·Introduction | 第32页 |
| ·The distinction between a V-O verb and a V-O phrase | 第32-35页 |
| ·Degree of transitivity of the V-O verb | 第35-39页 |
| ·Data collection | 第35-37页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第37-39页 |
| ·Frequency of different semantic roles functioning as the object of the V-O verb | 第39-46页 |
| ·Semantic roles that can function as object of the V-O verb | 第39-41页 |
| ·Data collection | 第41-42页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第42-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter Five A Cognitive Approach to the Study of Transitivization of the V-O verb | 第47-57页 |
| ·Introduction | 第47页 |
| ·A cognitive approach to the transitivization of the Chinese V-O verb | 第47-56页 |
| ·Frame and prominence | 第49-53页 |
| ·Actual realization of transitivization | 第53-56页 |
| ·Summary | 第56-57页 |
| Chapter six Concluding Remarks | 第57-59页 |
| ·Summary of the study | 第57页 |
| ·Major contributions of the study | 第57-58页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第58-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-63页 |
