| Acknowledgements | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第9页 |
| 1.2 Research Objective | 第9-10页 |
| 1.3 Research Significance | 第10页 |
| 1.4 Organization of the Thesis | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第12-28页 |
| 2.1 The Definition of English Resultative Construction | 第12-13页 |
| 2.2 The Syntactic View on English Resultative Construction | 第13-17页 |
| 2.2.1 Direct Object Restriction | 第13-15页 |
| 2.2.2 Small Clause Analysis | 第15-17页 |
| 2.3 The Semantic View on English Resultative Construction | 第17-20页 |
| 2.4 The Pragmatic View on English Resultative Construction | 第20-23页 |
| 2.5 The Constructional View on English Resultative Construction | 第23-26页 |
| 2.6 Summary | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Foundation | 第28-37页 |
| 3.1 The Theoretical Framework: Construction Grammar | 第28-34页 |
| 3.1.1 The Concept of Construction | 第29-30页 |
| 3.1.2 The Interaction between Verbs and Constructions | 第30-33页 |
| 3.1.3 Polysemy Links | 第33-34页 |
| 3.2 The Prototype Theory | 第34-36页 |
| 3.3 Summary | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Four The Polysemy of English Resultative Construction | 第37-62页 |
| 4.1 The Existence of English Resultative Construction | 第37-38页 |
| 4.2 Constraints on English Resultative Construction | 第38-42页 |
| 4.2.1 (Animate) Instigator Constraint | 第39页 |
| 4.2.2 Aspectual Constraint | 第39-40页 |
| 4.2.3 End-of-Scale Constraint | 第40-41页 |
| 4.2.4 Restriction against Deverbal Adjectives | 第41-42页 |
| 4.3 The Representation of English Resultative Construction | 第42-44页 |
| 4.3.1 The Syntactic Representation of English Resultative Construction | 第42页 |
| 4.3.2 The Semantic Representation of English Resultative Construction | 第42-43页 |
| 4.3.3 The Constructional Representation of English Resultative Construction | 第43-44页 |
| 4.4 The Constructional Polysemy | 第44-52页 |
| 4.4.1 The Polysemy of English Resultative Construction with NP_1 V NP_2RP_3 | 第45-46页 |
| 4.4.2 The Polysemy of English Resultative Construction with NP_1 V RP_2 | 第46-47页 |
| 4.4.3 The Prototype of English Resultative Construction | 第47-49页 |
| 4.4.4 Other Related English Resultative Constructions | 第49-51页 |
| 4.4.5 The Relationship between the Prototypical and Atypical Meanings of English Resultative Construction | 第51-52页 |
| 4.5 Motivation of the Polysemy of English Resultative Construction | 第52-58页 |
| 4.6 The Formation of the Polysemy of English Resultative Construction | 第58-61页 |
| 4.6.1 The Formation of the Prototype of English Resultative Construction | 第58-59页 |
| 4.6.2 The Formation of the Atypical English Resultative Constructions | 第59-61页 |
| 4.7 Summary | 第61-62页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第62-65页 |
| References | 第65-68页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间主要的研究成果 | 第68-69页 |
