| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| List of Figures | 第10-11页 |
| List of Tables | 第11-13页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第14-19页 |
| ·Research Orientation | 第14页 |
| ·English Ditransitive Construction: The Target of Research | 第14-15页 |
| ·Rationale | 第15-17页 |
| ·Pedagogical Significance: Towards the Learning Task of the English DC | 第15-16页 |
| ·Theoretical Significance: Approaching the Construction Grammar Perspective | 第16-17页 |
| ·Key Research Questions | 第17-18页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第19-26页 |
| ·Theoretical Researches on English Ditransitive Construction | 第19-23页 |
| ·Transformational Approach | 第19-20页 |
| ·Lexicosemantic Approach | 第20-23页 |
| ·The Basic Assumptions of the Lexicosemantic Approach | 第20-21页 |
| ·Pinker’s Broad& Narrow Range Rules on Ditransitive Construction | 第21-23页 |
| ·Constructional Approach | 第23页 |
| ·Empirical Researches on English Ditransitive Construction | 第23-25页 |
| ·Summary | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第26-44页 |
| ·The Theory of Construction Grammar | 第26-30页 |
| ·Construction: What It Is | 第26-28页 |
| ·Bas ic Tenets of CG | 第28页 |
| ·The Interaction Between Verbs and Constructions | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Ditransitive Construction: A CG Approach | 第30-41页 |
| ·Construction al Representation of DC | 第30-31页 |
| ·Verb Types: Semantic Hierarchy | 第31-36页 |
| ·Goldberg: Polysemy of Ditransitive Construction | 第31-34页 |
| ·Xu Shenghuan: Three Types of Verbs | 第34-35页 |
| ·Summary: A Hierarchy of Verbal Semantic Types | 第35-36页 |
| ·Verb Types: Cross-linguistic Difference | 第36-41页 |
| ·The Divergence of Constructional Meaning in English and Chinese | 第36-38页 |
| ·Occurrence Restrictions of Verbs Across Languages | 第38-40页 |
| ·Summary: Cross-linguistic Difference on Occurrence of Verb Types | 第40-41页 |
| ·A CG Account Towards L2 Acquisition of DC | 第41-43页 |
| ·L2 Acquisition of English DC: Implications from the Two Factors | 第41-42页 |
| ·Research Hypotheses | 第42-43页 |
| ·Variables Involved in the Hypothes es Testing | 第43页 |
| ·Summary | 第43-44页 |
| Chapter 4 Research Design, Instrumentation, Data Collection and Data Analysis | 第44-53页 |
| ·Research Design | 第44-45页 |
| ·Subjects | 第45-46页 |
| ·Instruments | 第46-50页 |
| ·Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT | 第46-48页 |
| ·Error Correction Task (ECT | 第48-50页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第50页 |
| ·Data Scoring | 第50-51页 |
| ·Scoring of AJT Data | 第50-51页 |
| ·Scoring of ECT Data | 第51页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第51页 |
| ·Summary | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter 5 Results for Research Hypotheses Testing | 第53-66页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 1 | 第53-56页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 2 | 第56-62页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 2 through Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT) Data | 第57-59页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 2 through Error Correction Task (ECT) Data | 第59-62页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 3 | 第62-64页 |
| ·Summary | 第64-66页 |
| Chapter 6 General Discussion | 第66-70页 |
| ·A Summary of the Research Findings | 第66-68页 |
| ·A Summary of Major Linguistic Findings | 第66-67页 |
| ·A Summary of Major Empirical Find ings | 第67-68页 |
| ·Factors Involved in L2 Acquisition of English DC: to Verify the CG Account | 第68-69页 |
| ·Summary | 第69-70页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusions | 第70-74页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第70-71页 |
| ·Implications for L2 DC Research and Instruction | 第71-72页 |
| ·Limitations | 第72-73页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Research | 第73-74页 |
| References | 第74-80页 |
| Appendix I | 第80-83页 |
| Appendix II | 第83-86页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第86页 |
