| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Preface in Chinese | 第7-11页 |
| Abstract in English | 第11-12页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction to Construction Grammar | 第13-15页 |
| ·Construction Grammar | 第13页 |
| ·Conditional as a category | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Introduction to "If" conditionals | 第15-20页 |
| ·"If conditionals as the broadest syntactic frame of conditionals | 第15页 |
| ·The form of "If conditionals | 第15-16页 |
| ·The varieties of "If conditionals | 第16-20页 |
| ·Temporal classification | 第16-18页 |
| ·Non-temporal classification | 第18页 |
| ·Dancygier's classification | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Three Approaches to the study of "If conditionals | 第20-25页 |
| ·Truth-conditional treatment | 第20-21页 |
| ·Pedagogic approach | 第21-22页 |
| ·Purely descriptive method | 第22-23页 |
| ·Constructional approach | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Four Basic parameters of conditionality | 第25-32页 |
| ·The if p, (then) q frame | 第25-26页 |
| ·Clause order | 第26页 |
| ·Types of protasis/apodosis relations | 第26-27页 |
| ·The role of if: its constructional meaning | 第27-32页 |
| Chapter Five Verb forms in conditional constructions | 第32-56页 |
| ·A review of the existing accounts of verb morphology in conditionals | 第33-37页 |
| ·Pedagogical description | 第33-34页 |
| ·Descriptive account | 第34-36页 |
| ·Philosophical description | 第36-37页 |
| ·The indication of verb form | 第37-46页 |
| ·Time reference in hypothetical and open sentences | 第39-42页 |
| ·The fulfillment of the condition | 第42-46页 |
| ·Backshift in conditional constructions | 第46-48页 |
| ·Prediction and distance: two type of conditional backshift | 第48-56页 |
| ·Predictive modality | 第49-53页 |
| ·Hypothetical backshift | 第53-56页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第56-60页 |
| References | 第60-64页 |
