| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-18页 |
| Part ⅠIntroduction | 第18-23页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第18-23页 |
| ·Rationale for the study | 第18-20页 |
| ·Aims of the study | 第20-21页 |
| ·Organization of the dissertation | 第21-23页 |
| Part Ⅱ Literature Review | 第23-60页 |
| Chapter 2 Word Combinations | 第23-50页 |
| ·Dimensions to word combinations | 第23-32页 |
| ·SLA research on word combinations | 第32-45页 |
| ·The need for the present study | 第45-50页 |
| Chapter 3 Verb-Particle Combinations | 第50-60页 |
| ·VPCs—A theoretical review | 第50-52页 |
| ·Delineating verb-particle combinations | 第52-54页 |
| ·Previous SLA research on VPCs | 第54-59页 |
| ·The present study | 第59-60页 |
| Part Ⅲ Theoretical Exploration—Chinese-English Differences in Representation of Macro-events | 第60-177页 |
| Chapter 4 VPCs and Cross-linguistic Differences in Representation of Macro-events—A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective | 第60-115页 |
| ·The fundamentals of cognitive linguistics | 第62-70页 |
| ·Influence of conceptualization on language and language use | 第70-83页 |
| ·Conceptualization and word combinations | 第83-84页 |
| ·Conceptualization, cross-linguistic differences in representation of macro-events and VPCs | 第84-115页 |
| Chapter 5 Chinese–English Differences in Representation of Macro-events | 第115-177页 |
| ·Overall typological patterns of English and Chinese | 第115-117页 |
| ·Chinese-English differences in lexicalization patterns of specific types of events | 第117-130页 |
| ·Contrasting corresponding satellites in English and Chinese: Differences in elaborations and mappings of image schemas | 第130-173页 |
| ·Summary | 第173-177页 |
| Part Ⅳ Empirical Exploration—The Influence of Chinese-English Differences in Representation of Macro-events on Chinese EFL Learners’Use of VPCs | 第177-230页 |
| Chapter 6 Research Design | 第177-193页 |
| ·Research questions | 第178-179页 |
| ·Research methodology | 第179-185页 |
| ·Corpora employed in the present study | 第185-188页 |
| ·Procedure | 第188-193页 |
| Chapter 7 Results and Analysis | 第193-230页 |
| ·Counts of VPCs | 第193-196页 |
| ·Chinese learners’use of VPCs and Chinese-English congruence in conceptualization | 第196-208页 |
| ·Analysis of the statistical results | 第208-215页 |
| ·Error analysis | 第215-230页 |
| Part Ⅴ Conclusion | 第230-237页 |
| Chapter 8 Conclusions and Implications | 第230-237页 |
| ·Summary of the findings | 第230-232页 |
| ·Implications | 第232-235页 |
| ·Limitations and directions for future research | 第235-237页 |
| References | 第237-252页 |
| Appendices | 第252-275页 |
