| ABSTRACT | 第1-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| CONTENTS | 第7-10页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第10-13页 |
| ·The significance of this thesis | 第10-11页 |
| ·The Purposes of this Thesis | 第11页 |
| ·The layout of this thesis | 第11-13页 |
| CHAPTER TWO A REVIEW OF THE STUDIES OF PREPOSITIONS | 第13-17页 |
| ·Grammatical Definitions of Prepositions | 第13-14页 |
| ·Previous Studies of Prepositions | 第14-16页 |
| ·Early Studies of Prepositions | 第14-15页 |
| ·Major Studies of Prepositions in Cognitive Linguistics | 第15-16页 |
| ·Summary | 第16-17页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL BASES | 第17-32页 |
| ·Categorization | 第17-20页 |
| ·The Classical View of Categorization | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Present View of Categorization | 第18-20页 |
| ·Prototype Theory | 第20-24页 |
| ·An Introduction to the Prototype Theory | 第20-22页 |
| ·Family Resemblance | 第22-23页 |
| ·Basic Level Terms | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Nature of Subjectivity | 第24页 |
| ·Several Basic Mechanisms of Human Mind | 第24-30页 |
| ·Mappings | 第25-28页 |
| ·Accommodation | 第28页 |
| ·Figure and Ground Orientation | 第28-30页 |
| ·Summary | 第30-32页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR A DETAILED STUDY OF OVER,ABOVE AND ON | 第32-51页 |
| ·The Reasons for Choosing Over,Above and On in this Thesis | 第32-33页 |
| ·Two Standards to Define the Prototypical Features of Over,Above and On | 第33-35页 |
| ·The Prototypical Features of Over,Above and On from Dictionaries | 第34-35页 |
| ·Prior Senses of Over,Above and On in People's Mind | 第35页 |
| ·Various Senses of Over,Above and On | 第35-44页 |
| ·An Analysis of the Senses of Over | 第35-40页 |
| ·Senses Inferred from"Higher than and Directly above with a Space between the Figure and Ground" | 第36-37页 |
| ·Senses Inferred from"Higher than and Directly above without a Space between the Figure and the Ground" | 第37-38页 |
| ·Other Senses from both Features | 第38-40页 |
| ·An Analysis of the Senses of Above | 第40-41页 |
| ·An Analysis of the Senses of On | 第41-44页 |
| ·Similarities and Differences between Over,Above and On | 第44-50页 |
| ·Similarities between Over,Above and On | 第45-47页 |
| ·Similarities between Over and Above | 第45-46页 |
| ·Similarities between Over and On | 第46-47页 |
| ·Similarities between Above and On | 第47页 |
| ·Differences between Over,Above and On | 第47-50页 |
| ·Differences between Over and Above | 第47-48页 |
| ·Differences between Over and On | 第48页 |
| ·Differences between Above and On | 第48-50页 |
| ·Summary of the Similarities and Differences between Over,Above and On | 第50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| CHAPTER 5 IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING PREPOSITIONS | 第51-58页 |
| ·The Teaching of Prepositions in English | 第51-54页 |
| ·An Introduction to the Prototypical Features of Prepositions | 第51-52页 |
| ·Extended Senses of Prepositions | 第52-53页 |
| ·Consolidating Exercises | 第53-54页 |
| ·Experimental Studies of the Teaching of Prepositions | 第54-57页 |
| ·The Purposes of the Experiments | 第54页 |
| ·Subjects of the Experiments | 第54页 |
| ·Contents of the Experiments | 第54-55页 |
| ·The Performance of the Experiments | 第55页 |
| ·Results of the Experiments | 第55-56页 |
| ·Results of the Investigation | 第56-57页 |
| ·Summary | 第57-58页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第58-60页 |
| ·The Main Contribution of this Thesis | 第58-59页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Studies | 第59-60页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第60-61页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第61-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-66页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第66-67页 |
