| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第12-17页 |
| ·Middles in Language | 第12-14页 |
| ·The Delimitation of Chinese Qilai Middles | 第14-15页 |
| ·Significance and Objectives | 第15-16页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第17-26页 |
| ·Generative Approaches to Middles across Languages | 第17-20页 |
| ·The syntactic approach and its limitations | 第18-19页 |
| ·The lexical approach and its limitations | 第19-20页 |
| ·Cognitive Approaches to Middles across Languages | 第20-24页 |
| ·Studies on Chinese Qilai Middles | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Three THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK——GNITIVE CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR (CCXG) BY GOLDBERG | 第26-34页 |
| ·General Introduction of Cognitive Construction Grammar | 第26-28页 |
| ·The Concept of Construction | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Nature of Verb Meaning | 第30页 |
| ·The Nature of Construction Meaning | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Integration of Verb and Construction | 第31-32页 |
| ·Relations among Constructions | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Four QILAI MIDDLES AS A CONSTRUCTION | 第34-63页 |
| ·The Existence of Qilai Middles as a Construction | 第34-44页 |
| ·The meaning of qilai | 第34-41页 |
| ·The basic meaning of qilai and possible extensions | 第35-39页 |
| ·No evaluative meaning in qilai | 第39-41页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of V-qilai | 第41-43页 |
| ·The Evaluative Meaning of AP | 第43-44页 |
| ·The Meaning of Qilai Middle Construction (QMC) | 第44-49页 |
| ·The various interpretations of QMC | 第45-47页 |
| ·The basic and central sense and its possible extensions of QMC | 第47-49页 |
| ·Constructional Account for Syntactic Features of QMC | 第49-55页 |
| ·The semantic roles of grammatical subject | 第50-52页 |
| ·Stativization of V-qilai | 第52-54页 |
| ·Characteristics of the adjective phrase (AP) | 第54-55页 |
| ·Constructional Account for Semantic Features of QMC | 第55-59页 |
| ·Conduciveness of the subject | 第56-57页 |
| ·Implicit agent | 第57-58页 |
| ·Non-eventiveness and time-irrelevance | 第58-59页 |
| ·Partial Productivity of QMC | 第59-63页 |
| ·Selectional restrictions on middle verbs | 第59-61页 |
| ·Selectional restrictions on AP | 第61-63页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第63-66页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Thesis | 第63-65页 |
| ·Limitations of the Thesis and Suggestions for Further Research | 第65-66页 |
| References | 第66-69页 |
