| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| 1.1 Motivation of the current study | 第10页 |
| 1.2 Objectives of current study | 第10-11页 |
| 1.3 Research Methodology and data resources | 第11页 |
| 1.4 Arrangement of this thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第12-20页 |
| 2.1 Causative situation | 第12-13页 |
| 2.2 Causative “de”construction | 第13-20页 |
| 2.2.1 The definition of causative “de”construction | 第13-16页 |
| 2.2.2 Syntactic features of “NP1 + V1 + de + NP2 + VP2” | 第16-18页 |
| 2.2.3 Causative “de”construction and four related constructions | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical foundations | 第20-26页 |
| 3.1 Event Integration | 第20-24页 |
| 3.1.1 Components of macro-event | 第21-23页 |
| 3.1.2 Mappings of the macro-event onto syntactic structures | 第23-24页 |
| 3.2 Action Chain | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter 4 Syntactic features of “(NP1) + V1 + de + (NP2) + VP2” | 第26-33页 |
| 4.1 The syntactic features of V1 and VP2 in “(NP1) + V1 + de + (NP2) + VP2” | 第26-30页 |
| 4.2 The syntactic features of NP2 in “(NP1) + V1 + de + (NP2) + VP2” | 第30-33页 |
| Chapter 5 Semantic features of “(NP1) + V1 + de + (NP2) + VP2” | 第33-62页 |
| 5.1 Comments on previous viewpoints of causative “de”constructions | 第33-40页 |
| 5.2 Studying semantic features of “de”construction from cognitive approach | 第40-60页 |
| 5.2.1 The notion of Autonomous event and Caused event | 第40-43页 |
| 5.2.2 Prototypical causative situation | 第43-45页 |
| 5.2.3 The “de”constructions with non-prototypical Agent | 第45-49页 |
| 5.2.4 The “de”constructions with NP2 as the logical subject of V1 | 第49-57页 |
| 5.2.5 The “de”constructions with NP2 as a part of NP1 | 第57-60页 |
| 5.3 Summary | 第60-62页 |
| Chapter 6 Constructions related with “de”construction | 第62-72页 |
| 6.1 “ba”construction, “bei”construction and “de”construction | 第62-65页 |
| 6.2 Copy-verb construction and “de”construction | 第65-67页 |
| 6.3 V-V construction and “de”construction | 第67-71页 |
| 6.4 Summary | 第71-72页 |
| Conclusion | 第72-74页 |
| Bibliography | 第74-78页 |
| Appendix | 第78-81页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第81页 |
