| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| ·Rationale of the study | 第11-13页 |
| ·Objectives | 第13-15页 |
| ·Semantics & Grammar | 第15页 |
| ·Layout of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two English Complementation:A Survey | 第17-31页 |
| ·Definition of complementation | 第17-19页 |
| ·The traditional approach | 第19-22页 |
| ·The structural approach | 第22-24页 |
| ·The transformational generative grammar approach | 第24-28页 |
| ·Other strategies for analysis | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Preliminaries | 第31-37页 |
| ·The concept of constructions | 第31页 |
| ·Basic tenets of construction grammar | 第31-34页 |
| ·Merits & Demerits | 第34-36页 |
| ·Advantages of constructional account for English complementation | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Four A Constructional Approach to English Complementation | 第37-74页 |
| ·Some technical notions | 第37-39页 |
| ·Temporality | 第37页 |
| ·Boundedness | 第37页 |
| ·Iconicity | 第37-38页 |
| ·Mapping | 第38-39页 |
| ·Complementation:Event structure construction | 第39-43页 |
| ·OBJ+infinitive construction | 第40-41页 |
| ·OBJ+to+infinitive construction | 第41-42页 |
| ·OBJ+present participle construction | 第42页 |
| ·OBJ+to+present participle construction | 第42-43页 |
| ·Verbal Complementation | 第43-71页 |
| ·Semantic properties of verbs | 第43-51页 |
| ·The[NP V_(matrix)[to V....]]constructional schema and the meaning of to | 第51-62页 |
| ·The prototypical sense of prepositional to | 第51-55页 |
| ·to evokes movement along a physical path and purpose | 第55页 |
| ·to lacks a physical movement sense,but still evokes purpose | 第55-56页 |
| ·to evokes future intention and volitionality,but not purpose | 第56-58页 |
| ·to as a marker of holistic construal | 第58-61页 |
| ·Infinitival to fundamentally evokes conceptual distance | 第61-62页 |
| ·The[NP V_(matrix)[V-ing]]constructional schema and its meaning | 第62-71页 |
| ·The basic meaning contribution of -ing | 第63-64页 |
| ·-ing evokes actual overlap | 第64页 |
| ·-ing evokes prior overlap | 第64-66页 |
| ·-ing denotes hypothetical overlap | 第66-67页 |
| ·-ing denotes subjective overlap | 第67-70页 |
| ·-ing as a general marker of conceptual overlap of some type | 第70-71页 |
| ·Alternations | 第71-74页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第74-77页 |
| ·Findings | 第74-75页 |
| ·Limitations | 第75-77页 |
| References | 第77-81页 |
