| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| ·Orientation of the Thesis | 第10页 |
| ·Methods | 第10页 |
| ·Objectives of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第11页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第12-18页 |
| ·S-Genitive | 第12-13页 |
| ·Possession and Genitive | 第12页 |
| ·The Components of the S-genitive | 第12-13页 |
| ·Previous Studies on S-genitive | 第13-18页 |
| ·Quirk's View on S-genitive | 第13-14页 |
| ·Langacker's View on S-genitive | 第14-15页 |
| ·Rosenbach's View on S-genitive | 第15-16页 |
| ·Hawkins' View on S-genitive | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Three Animacy Category | 第18-27页 |
| ·Categorization | 第18-19页 |
| ·Aristotle's Approach to Categorization | 第18页 |
| ·Wittgenstein's Findings on Categories | 第18-19页 |
| ·Prototype Theory | 第19页 |
| ·Animacy | 第19-23页 |
| ·The Definition of Animacy | 第20页 |
| ·Animacy As a Biological Category | 第20-21页 |
| ·Animacy as a Conceptual Category | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Factors of Culture and Individuals | 第22-23页 |
| ·Animacy and Neurophysiology | 第23页 |
| ·Animacy Hierarchy | 第23-25页 |
| ·Silverstein's Animacy Hierarchy | 第23-24页 |
| ·Comrie Bernard's Animacy Hierarchy | 第24-25页 |
| ·Animacy and S-genitive | 第25-27页 |
| ·Humans and Animate Things as the Possessor | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Absolute and Relative Animacy Hierarchies about S-genitive | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter Four Methodology | 第27-30页 |
| ·Objectives | 第28页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第28页 |
| ·Restrictions | 第28-29页 |
| ·Procedure | 第29-30页 |
| Chapter Five Analysis of the Results with a Cognitive Account | 第30-50页 |
| ·Results of the data | 第30-36页 |
| ·Distribution of All the S-genitives in Three Novels | 第30页 |
| ·Distribution of the S-genitives without Modifiers before the Possesums | 第30-32页 |
| ·The Violation of the Relative Animacy Hierarchy in Three Novels | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Evidence that Shows the Change from Of-genitive to S-genitive | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Violation of the Relative Animacy Hierarchy in New York Times News | 第34-36页 |
| ·Analysis on the Different Distributions of S-genitive Categories in Three Novels | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Account for the Violation of the Relative Animacy Hierarchy | 第37-41页 |
| ·Style Difference between Children's Book and Journalism | 第37页 |
| ·The Reason of the Violation of the Relative Hierarchy in Three Novels | 第37-39页 |
| ·The Reason of the Violation of the Relative Animacy Hierarchy in New York Times | 第39页 |
| ·The Account for the Violation of the Relative Animacy Hierarchy in Novels and News | 第39-41页 |
| ·Prediction on the Future Trend about the Violation of the Relative Animacy Hierarchy | 第41页 |
| ·The Explanations for the Spread of S-genitive | 第41-42页 |
| ·New Expressions for Newly Appeared Things | 第41-42页 |
| ·Of-genitive Replaced by S-genitive Because of Iconicity of Distance | 第42页 |
| ·The Unidirectionality of Grammaticalization from Of-genitive to S-genitive | 第42-50页 |
| ·A Brief History of the Competition of S-genitive and Of-genitive | 第42-43页 |
| ·The Revival of S-genitive and the Status of POSS(Possessive)'s | 第43-44页 |
| ·The Role of his | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Grammaticalization of S-genitive in the Traditional Sense | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Account for the Unidirectionality of Grammaticalization from Of-genitive to S-genitive | 第47-50页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第52-53页 |
| References | 第53-56页 |
| Appendix | 第56页 |
