| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review:Different Approaches to the Study Of Voice | 第13-27页 |
| ·Voice Studied in Traditional Grammar | 第13-15页 |
| ·Voice Studied in Structural Grammar | 第15-16页 |
| ·Voice Studied in Transformation-generative Grammar | 第16-18页 |
| ·Voice studied in Case Grammar | 第18-20页 |
| ·Voice Studied in Functional Grammar | 第20-22页 |
| ·Voice Studied in Cognitive Grammar | 第22-25页 |
| ·Summary | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Foundations of the Thesis | 第27-37页 |
| ·Classical Theory of Categorization | 第27-29页 |
| ·Prototype Theory of Categorization | 第29-34页 |
| ·Family Resemblance | 第30-31页 |
| ·Prototypical Members and Non-prototypical Members | 第31-32页 |
| ·Fuzziness of the Boundary of a Prototype Category | 第32-33页 |
| ·Prototype Category | 第33-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-37页 |
| Chapter 3 Voice of the Verb in English as a Grammatical Category | 第37-44页 |
| ·Definition of the Voice in English | 第37-40页 |
| ·Definitions of the Voice in Previous Studies and Their Problems | 第37-40页 |
| ·Definition Adopted in This Paper | 第40页 |
| ·Subcategories of the Voice in English | 第40-43页 |
| ·The Active Voice | 第41-42页 |
| ·The Passive Voice | 第42-43页 |
| ·Summary | 第43-44页 |
| Chapter 4 A Prototype Analysis of the Voice in English as a Semantic Continuum | 第44-71页 |
| ·Voice in English as a Semantic Continuum | 第44-47页 |
| ·Semantic Continuum | 第44-45页 |
| ·Voice as a Semantic Continuum | 第45-47页 |
| ·Active and Passive: two Neighboring Prototype Categories of Voice as a Semantic Continuum | 第47-48页 |
| ·A Prototype Analysis of the Active Voice as a Prototype Category | 第48-55页 |
| ·Prototypical Members of the Active Voice | 第49-53页 |
| ·Non-prototypical Members of the Active Voice | 第53-55页 |
| ·A Prototype Analysis of the Passive Voice as a Prototype Category | 第55-63页 |
| ·Prototypical Members of the Passive Voice | 第56-61页 |
| ·Non-prototypical Members of the Passive Voice | 第61-63页 |
| ·Agentless Processual Passives | 第61-62页 |
| ·Stative Passives | 第62-63页 |
| ·A Cognitive Analysis of the Overlapping Area Between the two Voices as Neighboring Prototype Categories | 第63-70页 |
| ·The Overlapping Area Between the two Voices as Neighboring Prototype Categories | 第64-66页 |
| ·The Cognitive Motivation of the Overlapping | 第66-70页 |
| ·Motivation in Terms of Boundary Fuzziness | 第66-67页 |
| ·Motivation in Terms of Cognition | 第67-70页 |
| ·Cognition and Language | 第68页 |
| ·Generation Mechanism of the Overlapping Area | 第68-69页 |
| ·Overlapping Area in the Objective World | 第69-70页 |
| ·Summary | 第70-71页 |
| Conclusion | 第71-75页 |
| Bibliography | 第75-79页 |
| Appendix | 第79-81页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第81-83页 |
