| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-19页 |
| ·Background of the Current Study | 第13-15页 |
| ·Objectives of the Current Study | 第15-17页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第19-27页 |
| ·Researches on the Semantic Structures of the Comparison Concept | 第19-20页 |
| ·Researches on the Syntactic Representations of the Comparison Concept | 第20-22页 |
| ·Comments on the Previous Researches | 第22-24页 |
| ·Summary | 第24-27页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Foundations | 第27-45页 |
| ·Relation between Syntax and Semantics | 第27-28页 |
| ·Conceptualization | 第28-30页 |
| ·Categorization | 第30-40页 |
| ·Metaphor and Metonymy | 第40-43页 |
| ·Summary | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter Three The Generation and Expansion of the Comparison Concept | 第45-87页 |
| ·The Experiential Basis of the Comparison Concept | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Premises of Comparison | 第47-48页 |
| ·The Definition and Componential Elements of the Comparison Concept | 第48-51页 |
| ·The Generation of the Comparison Concept | 第51-55页 |
| ·The Subject of Comparison | 第52-53页 |
| ·The Object of Comparison | 第53页 |
| ·The Point of Comparison | 第53-54页 |
| ·The Result of Comparison | 第54-55页 |
| ·The Expansion of the Comparison Concept | 第55-81页 |
| ·Prototypes of the Comparison Concept | 第56-61页 |
| ·Prototypes of the Subject of Comparison | 第57-58页 |
| ·Prototypes of the Object of Comparison | 第58页 |
| ·Prototypes of the Point of Comparison | 第58-59页 |
| ·Prototypes of the Result of Comparison | 第59-61页 |
| ·Non-prototypes of the Comparison Concept | 第61-67页 |
| ·The Motivation, Foundation and Mechanisms of the Expansion | 第67-74页 |
| ·The Motivation of the Expansion | 第67-68页 |
| ·The Foundation of the Expansion | 第68-69页 |
| ·The Mechanisms of the Expansion | 第69-74页 |
| ·The Process of the Expansion | 第74-81页 |
| ·The Process of the Expansion of the Subject and Object of Comparison | 第74-77页 |
| ·The Process of the Expansion of the Point of Comparison | 第77-79页 |
| ·The Process of the Expansion of the Result of Comparison | 第79-81页 |
| ·The Category of Comparison and Adjacent Categories | 第81-84页 |
| ·Comparison and Assertion | 第81-82页 |
| ·Comparison and Selection | 第82-83页 |
| ·Comparison and Contrast | 第83页 |
| ·Comparison and Metaphor or Simile | 第83-84页 |
| ·Summary | 第84-87页 |
| Chapter Four The Generation and Expansion of the Comparative Sentence in English | 第87-105页 |
| ·The Generation of the Comparative Sentence in English | 第88-96页 |
| ·The Linguistic Representation of the Comparison Concept | 第88-92页 |
| ·The Comparative Sentence in English | 第92-96页 |
| ·The Expansion of the Comparative Sentence in English | 第96-104页 |
| ·The Prototypes of the Comparative Sentence in English and Their Syntactic Features | 第96-100页 |
| ·The Non-prototypes of the Comparative Sentence in English and Their Syntactic Features | 第100-104页 |
| ·Summary | 第104-105页 |
| Conclusion | 第105-109页 |
| Bibliography | 第109-115页 |
| Appendix | 第115-117页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第117-119页 |
