| ABSTRACT | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第10-14页 |
| ·Background of the Current Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Objectives and Significance of the Study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Main Organization of the Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第14-28页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the English Causative Construction | 第14-19页 |
| ·Related Studies on the English Causative Construction Abroad | 第14-18页 |
| ·Related Studies on the English Causative Construction at Home | 第18-19页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Grammatical Metonymy | 第19-27页 |
| ·Related Studies on Grammatical Metonymy Abroad | 第20-24页 |
| ·Related Studies on Grammatical Metonymy at Home | 第24-27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-28页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第28-38页 |
| ·Conceptual Metonymy | 第28-30页 |
| ·Grammatical Metonymy | 第30-37页 |
| ·Working Definition of Grammatical Metonymy | 第30-34页 |
| ·Operational Model of Grammatical Metonymy | 第34-37页 |
| ·Summary | 第37-38页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR ENGLISH CAUSATIVE CONSTRUCTION ON THE BASISOF GRAMMATICAL METONYMY | 第38-58页 |
| ·Noun-verb Conversion and Its Grammatical Metonymic Motivation | 第38-46页 |
| ·Adjective- verb Conversion and Its Grammatical Metonymic Motivation | 第46-47页 |
| ·The Integration between Inserted Verbs and the English CausativeConstruction and Its Grammatical Metonymic Motivation | 第47-54页 |
| ·Subject Change and Its Grammatical Metonymic Motivation | 第54-56页 |
| ·Summary | 第56-58页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第58-60页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第58-59页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Future Research | 第59-60页 |
| REFERENCES | 第60-64页 |
| 中文参考文献 | 第64-66页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第66-68页 |
| PUBLICATIONS | 第68-70页 |
| 作者简历 | 第70-74页 |
| 学位论文数据集 | 第74页 |
