| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·Background of the Research | 第12页 |
| ·Aims and Significance of the Research | 第12-14页 |
| ·Organization of This Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第16-32页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the Passive Concept | 第16-21页 |
| ·Previous Studies Abroad | 第16-19页 |
| ·Previous Studies at Home | 第19-20页 |
| ·Comments | 第20-21页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the Passive Sentence | 第21-32页 |
| ·Previous Studies in Traditional Grammar | 第22-23页 |
| ·Previous Studies in Structural Grammar | 第23页 |
| ·Previous Studies in Transformational Generative Grammar | 第23-26页 |
| ·Previous Studies in Functional Grammar | 第26-27页 |
| ·Previous Studies in the Cognitive Linguistics | 第27-29页 |
| ·Comments | 第29-32页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Foundation | 第32-42页 |
| ·The Prototype Theory | 第32-38页 |
| ·The Metaphor Theory | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter Three The Generation and Expansion of the Passive Concept | 第42-66页 |
| ·The Generation of the Passive Concept | 第42-48页 |
| ·The Passive Event in the Objective World | 第42-45页 |
| ·The Passive Event | 第43-45页 |
| ·The Participants in the Passive Event | 第45页 |
| ·The Passive Concept in the Conceptual World | 第45-48页 |
| ·The Passive Concept | 第46-47页 |
| ·The Componential Elements of the Passive Concept | 第47-48页 |
| ·The Expansion of the Passive Concept | 第48-66页 |
| ·The Prototype of the Passive Concept and Its Semantic Features | 第49-52页 |
| ·The Non-prototypes of the Passive Concept and Their Semantic Features | 第52-56页 |
| ·The Relationship between the Prototype and the Non-prototypes of the Passive Concept | 第56-58页 |
| ·The Differences and Similarities between the Prototype and the Non-prototypes of the Passive Concept | 第58-59页 |
| ·The Motivation and Foundation of the Expansion | 第59-62页 |
| ·The Motivation of the Expansion | 第60-61页 |
| ·The Foundation of the Expansion | 第61-62页 |
| ·The Process and Mechanism of the Expansion | 第62-66页 |
| ·The Process of the Expansion | 第62-64页 |
| ·The Mechanism of the Expansion | 第64-66页 |
| Chapter Four The Generation and Expansion of the Passive Sentence in English | 第66-96页 |
| ·The Generation of the Passive Sentence in English | 第66-76页 |
| ·The Relationship between the Passive Concept and the Passive Sentence in English | 第67-68页 |
| ·The Linguistic Representation of the Passive Concept | 第68-71页 |
| ·The Syntactic Structure of the Passive Sentence in English | 第71-76页 |
| ·The Expansion of the Passive Sentence in English | 第76-96页 |
| ·The Prototype of the Passive Sentence in English and Its Syntactic Features | 第76-80页 |
| ·The Prototype of the Passive Sentence in English | 第77-78页 |
| ·The Syntactic Features of the Pro to type | 第78-80页 |
| ·The Non-prototypes of the Passive Sentence in English and Their Syntactic Features | 第80-96页 |
| ·The Non-prototypes of the Passive Sentence in English | 第80-81页 |
| ·The Syntactic Features of the Non-prototypes | 第81-96页 |
| Conclusion | 第96-102页 |
| Bibliography | 第102-106页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第106-108页 |
