| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| 1.1 General Introduction to the Study | 第11-12页 |
| 1.2 Objectives and Necessity of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| 1.3 Organization of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-25页 |
| 2.1 Previous Studies of Psychological Verbs | 第15-20页 |
| 2.1.1 Studies of English Psychological Verbs | 第15-18页 |
| 2.1.2 Studies of Chinese Psychological Verbs | 第18-20页 |
| 2.2 Studies of English and Chinese Psychological Causative Verbs | 第20-23页 |
| 2.2.1 Studies of English Psychological Causative Verbs | 第22页 |
| 2.2.2 Studies of Chinese Causative Psych Verbs | 第22-23页 |
| 2.3 Review on Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese Psychological Causative Verbs | 第23-24页 |
| 2.4 Summary | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework-Figure and Ground Theory | 第25-35页 |
| 3.1 Introduction to Figure and Ground Theory | 第25-26页 |
| 3.2 Figure-Ground Segregation | 第26-27页 |
| 3.3 Properties of Figure and Ground | 第27-31页 |
| 3.4 Figure and Ground in Complex Sentences | 第31-33页 |
| 3.5 The Application of Figure and Ground Theory in Linguistic Studies | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Four Figure and Ground Theory Approach to English and Chinese Psychological Causative Verbs | 第35-59页 |
| 4.1 Main Psychological Causative Verbs in Chinese and English | 第35-36页 |
| 4.2 Figure and Ground Theory Approach to Morphological Features of English and Chinese Psychological Causative Verbs | 第36-44页 |
| 4.2.1 Morphological Features of English Psychological Causative Verbs | 第36-39页 |
| 4.2.2 Morphological Features of Chinese Psychological Causative Verbs | 第39-41页 |
| 4.2.3 Comparison of the Morphological Features of English and Chinese Psychological Causative Verbs | 第41-44页 |
| 4.3 Figure and Ground Theory Approach to Syntactic Features of English and Chinese Psychological Causative Verbs | 第44-58页 |
| 4.3.1 Syntactic Features of Chinese Psychological Causative Verbs | 第47-51页 |
| 4.3.1.1 Subject and Object Choice of Chinese Psychological Causative Verbs | 第47-49页 |
| 4.3.1.2 Sentence Structure of Chinese Psychological Causative Verbs. 39 | 第49-51页 |
| 4.3.2 Syntactic Features of English Psychological Causative Verbs | 第51-55页 |
| 4.3.2.1 Subject and Object Choice of English Psychological Causative Verbs | 第51-53页 |
| 4.3.2.2 Sentence Structure of English Psychological Causative Verbs | 第53-55页 |
| 4.3.3 Comparison of Syntactic Features of English and Chinese Psychological Causative Verbs | 第55-58页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第58-59页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第59-63页 |
| 5.1 Summary of Major Findings | 第59-60页 |
| 5.2 Implications of the Study | 第60-61页 |
| 5.3 Limitations of the Research | 第61-63页 |
| Works cited | 第63-66页 |
