| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review | 第16-28页 |
| ·A Review of Chinese Pivotal Sentences | 第16-22页 |
| ·Definition of Chinese Pivotal Sentence | 第16-18页 |
| ·Previous Studies of Chinese Pivotal Sentences | 第18-22页 |
| ·Previous Studies from the Synthetic Perspective | 第18-21页 |
| ·Previous Studies from the Diachronic Perspective | 第21-22页 |
| ·A Review of English Complex Object Sentences | 第22-25页 |
| ·Definition of English Complex Object Sentence | 第22-23页 |
| ·Previous Studies of English Complex Object Sentences | 第23-25页 |
| ·Present Contrastive Studies of the Two Sentence Types | 第25-26页 |
| ·Summary | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Bases | 第28-36页 |
| ·Cognitive Views and Image Schema | 第28-30页 |
| ·Grammaticalization Theory | 第30-36页 |
| ·Principles of Grammaticalization | 第30-32页 |
| ·Hypothesis of Unidirectionality | 第32-33页 |
| ·Mechanisms: Reanalysis and Analogy | 第33-36页 |
| ·Reanalysis | 第33-34页 |
| ·Analogy/Rule Generalization | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter3 Synthetic Contrast between the Two Structures | 第36-80页 |
| ·Contrast of the Entire Structure | 第36-42页 |
| ·Contrast of the Form and Logical Relations | 第36-39页 |
| ·Similarities in Form | 第37-38页 |
| ·Similarities in Semantic and Logical Relations | 第38-39页 |
| ·Contrast of Subject-predicate Relations | 第39-40页 |
| ·Contrast of the Mark of Tense and Aspect | 第40-42页 |
| ·Contrast of the Components in the Two Structures | 第42-80页 |
| ·Contrast of Matrix Verbs in the Two Structures | 第43-61页 |
| ·Similar Semantic Types of Matrix Verbs | 第43-49页 |
| ·Different Semantic Types of Matrix Verbs | 第49-54页 |
| ·Cognitive Foundations of the Two Structures | 第54-61页 |
| ·Contrast of Subject in the Two Structures | 第61-64页 |
| ·Contrast of Object in the Two Structures | 第64-68页 |
| ·Similarities of Object in the Two Structures | 第64页 |
| ·Differences of Object in the Two Structures | 第64-68页 |
| ·Contrast of Object(jianyu) Predicate and Complement | 第68-80页 |
| ·Similarities between Object(jianyu) Predicate and Complement | 第68-70页 |
| ·Differences between Object(jianyu) Predicate and Complement | 第70-80页 |
| Chapter4 Diachronic Contrast between the Two Structures | 第80-122页 |
| ·Diachronic Development of Complex object Structure | 第80-102页 |
| ·Original Form in Old English | 第80-88页 |
| ·Semantic Types of Matrix Verbs | 第81-84页 |
| ·Traits of Object in Complex Object Structure | 第84页 |
| ·Types of Complement in Complex Object Structure | 第84-88页 |
| ·Formation of SVOC Structure in Middle English | 第88-99页 |
| ·Reanalysis from SVO_1O_2 to SVOC Structure | 第88-91页 |
| ·Changes of Matrix Verbs and the Reasons | 第91-97页 |
| ·Types of Complement in SVOC Structure | 第97-99页 |
| ·Development of SVOC Structure in Modern English | 第99-102页 |
| ·Increasing Use of Some Matrix Verb Types | 第99页 |
| ·Increasing Use of Passives | 第99-100页 |
| ·Increasing Use of Present Participles | 第100-102页 |
| ·Diachronic Development of Chinese Pivotal Structure | 第102-118页 |
| ·General Accounts of the Diachronic Development | 第103-104页 |
| ·Research on Chinese Pivotal Structure in Zhanguoce | 第104-109页 |
| ·Semantic Types of Matrix Verbs in the Structure | 第104-105页 |
| ·Forms of Object in the Structure | 第105-107页 |
| ·Forms of Object(jianyu) Predicate in the Structure | 第107-109页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of ‘使’-type in Pivotal Structure | 第109-118页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of ‘使’ | 第109-115页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of Several Similar Verbs | 第115-118页 |
| ·Diachronic Contrast between the Two Structures | 第118-122页 |
| ·A Proof of Similar Cognitive Base | 第118-119页 |
| ·Reasons for the Difference of Subject-predicate Relations | 第119页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of Make-type Verbs | 第119页 |
| ·Reasons for the Differences of Some Semantic Types | 第119-120页 |
| ·Reasons for the Differences between Object Predicate and Complement | 第120-121页 |
| ·Similarities between Modern English and Ancient Chinese | 第121-122页 |
| Conclusion | 第122-126页 |
| Bibliography | 第126-132页 |
| Appendix | 第132-134页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第134-136页 |
