| 摘要 | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第12-20页 |
| ·Studies of Structural Linguistics | 第12-14页 |
| ·Studies of Transformational-Generative Grammar | 第14-15页 |
| ·Studies of Systemic-Functional Linguistics | 第15-17页 |
| ·Studies of Cognitive Linguistics | 第17-20页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Foundation | 第20-31页 |
| ·Categorization Theory | 第20-24页 |
| ·The Classical Theory of Categorization | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Prototype Theory | 第22-24页 |
| ·Figure/Ground Theory | 第24-29页 |
| ·An introduction to Figure/Ground Theory | 第24-26页 |
| ·Applications of Figure/Ground Theory | 第26-29页 |
| ·Metaphorical Theories | 第29-31页 |
| ·Metaphors as Figures of Speech | 第29页 |
| ·Metaphors as Cognitive Instruments | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Three Cognitive Motivations of English Simple Clause Patterns | 第31-49页 |
| ·Process and Participant | 第31-37页 |
| ·Schematic Process Types | 第31-33页 |
| ·Participants | 第33-36页 |
| ·Participant Roles | 第36-37页 |
| ·Canonical Event Model and English Simple Clause Patterns | 第37-44页 |
| ·Canonical Event Model | 第38-41页 |
| ·The Types of English Simple Clause Patterns | 第41-44页 |
| ·Cognitive Process and English Simple Clause Patterns | 第44-45页 |
| ·Circumstances as Clausal Subjects | 第45-46页 |
| ·Implications for English Syntax Teaching | 第46-49页 |
| Chapter Four Cognitive Motivations of English Complex Clause Patterns | 第49-64页 |
| ·Cognitive Motivations of Coordination | 第50-52页 |
| ·Cognitive Motivations of Subordination | 第52-61页 |
| ·Cognitive Motivations of English Adverbial Clause Patterns | 第53-55页 |
| ·Cognitive Motivations of English Relative Clause Patterns | 第55-57页 |
| ·Cognitive Motivations of Complementation | 第57-61页 |
| ·Implications for English Syntax Teaching | 第61-64页 |
| Chapter Five The Cognitive Motivations for the Derivation of English Patterns | 第64-82页 |
| ·The Factors Influencing the Derivation of English Clause Structures | 第64-67页 |
| ·Social and Pragmatic Factors | 第64-65页 |
| ·Cognitive Factors | 第65-66页 |
| ·Linguistic Factors | 第66-67页 |
| ·Cognitive Motivations of Two Derivational Clause Patterns in English | 第67-76页 |
| ·Inversion | 第67-71页 |
| ·Cleft Clause Patterns | 第71-76页 |
| ·Cognitive Motivations of English Metaphorical Clause Patterns | 第76-80页 |
| ·Personification | 第77-78页 |
| ·Animalization | 第78页 |
| ·Plantification | 第78-79页 |
| ·Hypostatization | 第79页 |
| ·Alienation | 第79-80页 |
| ·Implications for English Syntactic Teaching | 第80-82页 |
| Conclusion | 第82-84页 |
| Bibliography | 第84-88页 |
| 攻读学位期间完成的学术论文 | 第88-89页 |
| 致谢 | 第89页 |