| Acknowledgement | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-10页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-16页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第16-35页 |
| ·General Features of Chinese Resultative Compounds | 第16-21页 |
| ·Significance of Studying the Resultative Compounds | 第21-26页 |
| ·The resultative compound:its diachronic and synchronic importance | 第21-24页 |
| ·Significance of studying its argument expressions | 第24-26页 |
| ·Theoretical Background | 第26-34页 |
| ·The verb-centric approach to argument expressions | 第26-28页 |
| ·The light-verb approach to argument expressions | 第28-29页 |
| ·The constructional approach to argument expressions | 第29-31页 |
| ·Fusion between the verb and the construction | 第31-32页 |
| ·Frame semantics and encyclopedic knowledge | 第32-33页 |
| ·Conceptual operations in Cognitive Grammar | 第33-34页 |
| ·Structure of the Dissertation | 第34-35页 |
| CHAPTER TWO COMPOUNDING:A REVIEW | 第35-48页 |
| ·The Constrained Productivity of the Resultative Compound | 第35-41页 |
| ·Productivity and Causation | 第41-42页 |
| ·Constraints on the Productivity | 第42-46页 |
| ·Syntactic constraints | 第42-45页 |
| ·Aspectual constraints | 第45-46页 |
| ·Background information | 第46-47页 |
| ·The Issue and the Research Question | 第47-48页 |
| CHAPTER THREE A CONSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH | 第48-99页 |
| ·Constructional Status of the Compound | 第48-55页 |
| ·Existence of the construction | 第49-50页 |
| ·Motivations of the construction | 第50-52页 |
| ·Definition of causation | 第52-55页 |
| ·Different instantiations of the construction | 第55-78页 |
| ·The patient-oriented construction | 第55-63页 |
| ·The agent-oriented construction | 第63-71页 |
| ·Compounds denoting acquisition | 第71-73页 |
| ·Compounds denoting loss | 第73-76页 |
| ·Single-participant compounds | 第76-77页 |
| ·Summary of the five types of compounds | 第77-78页 |
| ·Constructional semantics and Salience of V2 in the Compound | 第78-82页 |
| ·The salience of the caused event in a causative relationship | 第78-80页 |
| ·Linguistic tests on the salience of V2 in the compounds | 第80-81页 |
| ·Caused event as the figure | 第81-82页 |
| ·Prototypical Causation and Constraint on Productivity | 第82-90页 |
| ·Prototypical causation and intended/expected result | 第82-84页 |
| ·Agent causation and intended/expected result | 第84-85页 |
| ·Intended/expected result and compounding | 第85-87页 |
| ·Further refinement on intended/expected result | 第87-90页 |
| ·Two Types of Compounds Deviating from the Prototype | 第90-93页 |
| ·Agent-oriented compounds | 第90-91页 |
| ·One-participant compounds | 第91-92页 |
| ·Intended/expected results:a summary | 第92-93页 |
| ·On background Information | 第93-96页 |
| ·Discourse information and the compound | 第93-94页 |
| ·Syntactic information and the compound | 第94-96页 |
| ·Summary and the Previous Accounts Revisited | 第96-99页 |
| ·Previous accounts revisited | 第96-97页 |
| ·Summary | 第97-99页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR THE CHOICE OF SUBJECT AND OBJECT:A REVIEW | 第99-127页 |
| ·Data and Observations | 第99-102页 |
| ·The subject as the causer | 第99-101页 |
| ·Argument alternation of subject-oriented compounds | 第101-102页 |
| ·Ambiguity of transitive resultative construction | 第102页 |
| ·Theoretical Background:Headedness of the Compound | 第102-105页 |
| ·The impossibility of V1 as the head | 第103-104页 |
| ·The impossibility of V2 as the head | 第104-105页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第105页 |
| ·An Overview of Existing Accounts:What Determines the Subject and Object | 第105-111页 |
| ·Two ways of representing causation | 第106-109页 |
| ·Constraint on the causer subject | 第109-111页 |
| ·Light-Verb Approach | 第111-116页 |
| ·Advantages and disadvantages:an overview | 第112页 |
| ·Selectional restrictions between the light verb and the compound | 第112-114页 |
| ·Review of representative studies | 第114-116页 |
| ·Compound-Verb approach | 第116-121页 |
| ·The causative hierarchy | 第116-120页 |
| ·Unmotivated causer and causee roles | 第120页 |
| ·Event structure | 第120-121页 |
| ·Constructional Approach | 第121-126页 |
| ·The framing event | 第121-122页 |
| ·The framing event and the transitive resultative constructions | 第122-123页 |
| ·Linking of the patient | 第123-124页 |
| ·Choice of subject | 第124-126页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第126-127页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE A CATEGORIZATION-BASED FUSION ACCOUNT | 第127-157页 |
| ·The Present Account:An Overview | 第127-130页 |
| ·The Transitive Construction and the Causer Status of the Subject | 第130-134页 |
| ·Accounting for the Non-canonical Patterns | 第134-143页 |
| ·Subject as a participant | 第135-136页 |
| ·Subject as the setting | 第136-139页 |
| ·Subject licensed by the compound verb | 第139-142页 |
| ·More case analysis | 第142-143页 |
| ·Extending the Analysis to the Canonical Patterns | 第143-147页 |
| ·Patient-oriented compounds | 第144-145页 |
| ·Agent-oriented compounds | 第145-146页 |
| ·Compounds denoting acquisition or loss | 第146页 |
| ·Summary | 第146-147页 |
| ·Argument Alternation | 第147-153页 |
| ·The first alternation | 第147-148页 |
| ·The second alternation | 第148-153页 |
| ·Explaining the Ambiguity of Transitive Resultative Compounds | 第153-156页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第156-157页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS | 第157-170页 |
| ·Two issues investigated in the dissertation | 第157-158页 |
| ·Answer to the First Issue and Its Implications | 第158-161页 |
| ·Answer to the first issue | 第158-159页 |
| ·Implications | 第159-161页 |
| ·Answer to the Second Issue and Its Implications | 第161-164页 |
| ·Answer to the second issue | 第161-162页 |
| ·Implications | 第162-164页 |
| ·Theoretical Significance | 第164-168页 |
| ·Limitations | 第168-170页 |
| References | 第170-178页 |
