| 中文摘要 | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第8-15页 |
| Chapter 1: Introduction | 第15-26页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第16-19页 |
| 1.2 Research Questions | 第19页 |
| 1.3 Methodology | 第19-25页 |
| 1.3.1 Literature Reading | 第20页 |
| 1.3.2. Induction & Deduction | 第20-22页 |
| 1.3.3 Corpus Analysis Method | 第22-25页 |
| 1.3.3.1 Data Source | 第23-24页 |
| 1.3.3.2 Data Collection and Analysis | 第24-25页 |
| 1.4 Research Significance | 第25页 |
| 1.5 Thesis Framework | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter 2: Literature Review | 第26-42页 |
| 2.1 Research at Home | 第26-30页 |
| 2.1.1 Second Language Acquisition | 第27-28页 |
| 2.1.2 Semantic Analysis | 第28-29页 |
| 2.1.3 Contrastive Analysis between Chinese and English Causal ComplexSentence | 第29-30页 |
| 2.2 Research Abroad | 第30-41页 |
| 2.2.1 Functional Analysis of Because | 第30页 |
| 2.2.2 Syntactic Analysis of Because | 第30-31页 |
| 2.2.3 Semantic Analysis of Because | 第31-32页 |
| 2.2.4 Pragmatic Analysis of Because | 第32-33页 |
| 2.2.5 Cross-linguistic Analysis of Causal Connective | 第33-34页 |
| 2.2.6 Construction Grammar Approach to the Analysis of Because | 第34-41页 |
| 2.2.6.1 Chafe (1984) | 第34-37页 |
| 2.2.6.2 Hirose (1998) | 第37-39页 |
| 2.2.6.3 Kanetani (2006) | 第39-41页 |
| 2.3 Summary | 第41-42页 |
| Chapter 3: Theoretical Foundation | 第42-64页 |
| 3.1 Construction Grammar | 第43-51页 |
| 3.1.1 Cognitive Grammar Developed by Langacker (1987) | 第44-45页 |
| 3.1.2 Construction Grammar Developed by Fillmore and Kay (1999) | 第45-47页 |
| 3.1.3 Construction Grammar Developed by Goldberg (1995, 2006) | 第47-50页 |
| 3.1.4 Summary | 第50-51页 |
| 3.2 The Significance of Because-construction from Constructionist Perspective | 第51-57页 |
| 3.3 Semantic Subtypes of Because-construction | 第57-62页 |
| 3.3.1 Causal Because-construction | 第58-60页 |
| 3.3.2 Reasoning Because-construction | 第60-62页 |
| 3.4 Summary | 第62-64页 |
| Chapter 4: Syntactic Analysis of Because-construction | 第64-89页 |
| 4.1 Meaning and Function of because in Structural Linguistics | 第64-65页 |
| 4.2 Corpus Data Collection and Processing | 第65-66页 |
| 4.3 Syntactic Features of Because-construction | 第66-87页 |
| 4.3.1 Formal Features of Because-construction | 第67-68页 |
| 4.3.2 Tense, Aspect, Voice and Modality | 第68-71页 |
| 4.3.3 Negation | 第71-77页 |
| 4.3.4 Syntactic Function | 第77-83页 |
| 4.3.5 Cleft Construction | 第83-85页 |
| 4.3.6 Because vs. Because of | 第85-87页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第87-89页 |
| Chapter 5: Semantic Analysis of Because-construction | 第89-116页 |
| 5.1 Presupposition and Assertion | 第89-93页 |
| 5.2 Objectivity and Subjectivity | 第93-97页 |
| 5.3 Implicit Purpose Meaning | 第97-100页 |
| 5.4 Relationship between Semantic Subtypes of Because-construction | 第100-102页 |
| 5.5 Idiomatic Because Expression: Just Because X doesn’t Mean Y | 第102-109页 |
| 5.6 Relative Causal Connectives | 第109-116页 |
| Chapter 6: Conclusion | 第116-119页 |
| References | 第119-126页 |
| Appendix 1: Instances of Just Because X doesn’t Mean Y from BNC | 第126-135页 |
| Appendix 2: Instances of Just Because X (,) It doesn’t Mean Y from BNC | 第135-139页 |
| Appendix 3: Instances of Causal Because-construction from BNC | 第139-153页 |
| Appendix 4: Instances of Reasoning Because-construction from BNC | 第153-154页 |
