| 摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-15页 |
| ·Motivation of the current study | 第9-10页 |
| ·Definition of construction and ECMC | 第10-12页 |
| ·Objectives and methodology of the study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Layout of this thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-27页 |
| ·An overview of the studies of causation and causative constructions | 第15-16页 |
| ·A survey of the previous studies of ECMC | 第16-25页 |
| ·The constructionist approach to ECMC | 第16-21页 |
| ·The Conceptual blending approach to ECMC | 第21-23页 |
| ·The grammatical blending approach to ECMC | 第23-24页 |
| ·Evaluations of the previous studies | 第24-25页 |
| ·The author’s proposal | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Prerequisites | 第27-33页 |
| ·A brief introduction to cognitive semantics | 第27-28页 |
| ·Experientialism | 第28-30页 |
| ·Image schema | 第30-32页 |
| ·Definition of image schema | 第30-31页 |
| ·The origin of image schema | 第31-32页 |
| ·Image, image schema and proposition | 第32页 |
| ·Summary | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Four Construction of CCMC in Cognitive Linguistics | 第33-60页 |
| ·Method of the construction of CCMC | 第33-38页 |
| ·General remarks | 第33-34页 |
| ·Relationship between image schema, semantic structure and syntactic structure | 第34-38页 |
| ·Image schema of the caused-motion causation | 第38-43页 |
| ·The experiential basis of caused-motion causation: driven-motion schema | 第38-40页 |
| ·Components of driven-motion schema and their logic relations | 第40-43页 |
| ·The semantic structure of the caused-motion causation | 第43-52页 |
| ·The concept of semantic structure | 第43-45页 |
| ·Semantic components of caused-motion causation and their properties | 第45-52页 |
| ·Caused-motion construction | 第52-58页 |
| ·English caused-motion construction | 第53-54页 |
| ·Chinese caused-motion construction | 第54-56页 |
| ·Comparison between the English caused-motion construction and the Chinese caused-motion construction | 第56-58页 |
| ·Summary | 第58-60页 |
| Chapter Five Further Study of the Constructional Senses of ECMC | 第60-71页 |
| ·The prototypical constructional sense of ECMC and its extensions | 第60-63页 |
| ·Deficiencies of the constructional senses of ECMC | 第63-66页 |
| ·The constructional senses of ECMC revisited | 第66-70页 |
| ·Specification | 第67-68页 |
| ·Profiling | 第68-70页 |
| ·Summary | 第70-71页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第71-74页 |
| ·Major findings | 第71-72页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further research | 第72-74页 |
| References | 第74-79页 |
