| Abstract | 第1-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| ·The Objective of this Thesis | 第9页 |
| ·The Layout of this Thesis | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第11-18页 |
| ·The Background of the Unified Study of –EE Nouns | 第11-14页 |
| ·The Origin of English –EE Nouns | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Classification of –EE Nouns | 第12-14页 |
| ·Traditional View | 第12页 |
| ·Barker’s View | 第12-13页 |
| ·Jiang Zheng’s View | 第13页 |
| ·A Modified Classification of –EE Nouns | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Previous Studies of -EE Nouns | 第14-17页 |
| ·Studies from the Syntactic Perspective | 第14-15页 |
| ·Studies from the Semantic Perspective | 第15-16页 |
| ·Heyvaert’s Study from the Cognitive Linguistics Perspective | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Necessity of Restudying –EE Nouns | 第17页 |
| ·Summary | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Three The Theoretical Basis: from a Cognitive Linguistics Perspective | 第18-28页 |
| ·The Symbolic Theory | 第18-21页 |
| ·Saussure’s Sign Theory | 第19页 |
| ·Langacker’s Symbolic Theory | 第19-21页 |
| ·Schema Theory | 第21-26页 |
| ·Using the Symbolic Theory and Schema Theory in the Study of –EE Nouns | 第26-27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter Four A Study of the Extension from Non-agentive –EE Nouns to Agentive –EE Nouns | 第28-42页 |
| ·Enation and Agnation | 第28-32页 |
| ·Enation | 第28-29页 |
| ·Agnate Relation and Its Criteria | 第29-32页 |
| ·An Assumption about –EE Nouns | 第32页 |
| ·The Relation between –EE Nouns and the Past-participial Constructions | 第32-41页 |
| ·The Past-participial –ED | 第32-36页 |
| ·The Relation between –EE Nouns and the Past-participial Constructions | 第36-39页 |
| ·Checking the Relation between –EE Nouns and the Past-participial Constructions with the Criteria of Agnation | 第39-41页 |
| ·Summary | 第41-42页 |
| Chapter Five An Amendatory Semantic Schema-instance Model of –EE Nouns | 第42-47页 |
| ·The Characteristics of Schema | 第42页 |
| ·Amending the Traditional Semantic schema-instance model of –EE Nouns | 第42-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter Six The Relation between Agentive –EE Nouns and Their Deverbal –ER Counterparts | 第47-52页 |
| ·–ER Nouns | 第47-48页 |
| ·A Comparison between –EE Nouns and –ER Nouns | 第48-51页 |
| ·The Similarities between –EE Nouns and –ER Nouns | 第48-49页 |
| ·The Differences between –EE Nouns and –ER Nouns | 第49-51页 |
| ·Summary | 第51-52页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第52页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Study | 第52-54页 |
| References | 第54-57页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第57页 |
