| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Background of the Current Study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Objectives of the Current Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Layout of This Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第15-21页 |
| ·Previous Researches on the Semantic Structures of the Causation Concept | 第15-16页 |
| ·Previous Researches on the Syntactic Representations of the Causation Concept | 第16-17页 |
| ·Comments on the Previous Researches | 第17-19页 |
| ·Summary | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Premises | 第21-37页 |
| ·Cognition and Language | 第21-23页 |
| ·Conceptualization | 第23-25页 |
| ·Categorization | 第25-31页 |
| ·Representation | 第31-32页 |
| ·Metaphor and Metonymy | 第32-33页 |
| ·Relations between Experiential Reality,Conceptual Category and Linguistic Category | 第33-35页 |
| ·Summary | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter Three The Generation and Expansion of the Causation Concept | 第37-67页 |
| ·The Experiential Basis of the Causation Concept | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Definition and Componential Elements of the Causation Concept | 第38-39页 |
| ·The Generation of the Causation Concept | 第39-42页 |
| ·The Expansion of the Causation Concept | 第42-65页 |
| ·Prototypes of the Causation Concept and Their Semantic Features | 第42-46页 |
| ·Non-prototypes of the Causation Concept and Their Semantic Features | 第46-50页 |
| ·The Motivation,Foundation and Mechanisms of the Expansion | 第50-58页 |
| ·The Motivation of the Expansion | 第50-51页 |
| ·The Foundation of the Expansion | 第51页 |
| ·The Mechanisms of the Expansion | 第51-58页 |
| ·The Processes of the Expansion | 第58-65页 |
| ·Summary | 第65-67页 |
| Chapter Four The Generation and Expansion of the Causative Sentence in English | 第67-89页 |
| ·The Generation of the Causative Sentence in English | 第67-71页 |
| ·The Linguistic Representation of the Causation Concept | 第67-70页 |
| ·The Causative Sentence in English | 第70-71页 |
| ·The Expansion of the Causative Sentence in English | 第71-87页 |
| ·The Prototypes of the Causative Sentence in English and Their Syntactic Features | 第72-76页 |
| ·The Prototypes of the Causative Sentence in English | 第72-75页 |
| ·The Syntactic Features of the Prototypes of the Causative Sentence in English | 第75-76页 |
| ·The Non-prototypes of the Causative Sentence in English and Their Syntactic Features | 第76-85页 |
| ·The Non-prototypes of the Causative Sentence in English | 第76-84页 |
| ·The Syntactic Features of the Non-prototypes of the Causative Sentence in English | 第84-85页 |
| ·The Roles of Subjective Devices in the Expansion of the Causative Sentence in English | 第85-87页 |
| ·The Role of Windowing of Attention | 第85-86页 |
| ·The Role of Scanning | 第86页 |
| ·The Role of Profiling and Perspective | 第86-87页 |
| ·Summary | 第87-89页 |
| Conclusion | 第89-93页 |
| Bibliography | 第93-97页 |
| Appendix | 第97-99页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第99-101页 |
