| Acknowledgements | 第4-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| 摘要 | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-21页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第13-15页 |
| 1.2 Research Questions | 第15-19页 |
| 1.3 Objectives and Significance | 第19页 |
| 1.4 Methodology and Data Collection | 第19-20页 |
| 1.5 Layout of the Thesis | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第21-28页 |
| 2.1 Previous Studies on LS and construction | 第21-22页 |
| 2.2 Previous Studies on Pseudo-Imperatives | 第22-25页 |
| 2.3 Previous Studies on Constructional Accounts | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Foundation | 第28-36页 |
| 3.1 Construction Grammar | 第28-34页 |
| 3.1.1 The Notion of Construction | 第29-31页 |
| 3.1.2 Motivation and Inheritance | 第31-33页 |
| 3.1.3 Construction Coercion | 第33-34页 |
| 3.2 Intersubjectivity | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Four Conditional Imperatives as a Construction | 第36-66页 |
| 4.1 Features of Conditional Imperatives | 第36-44页 |
| 4.1.1 Syntactic Features of Conditional Imperatives | 第36-38页 |
| 4.1.2 Semantic Features of Conditional Imperatives | 第38-41页 |
| 4.1.3 Pragmatic Features of Conditional Imperatives | 第41-44页 |
| 4.2 The Noncompositional Nature of Conditional Imperatives | 第44-48页 |
| 4.2.1 Three Subcategories | 第44-45页 |
| 4.2.2 Relations Among Subcategories | 第45-47页 |
| 4.2.3 The Noncompositional Meaning | 第47-48页 |
| 4.3 Conditional Imperatives and Other Related Constructions | 第48-61页 |
| 4.3.1 Conditional Imperatives and Imperatives | 第49-53页 |
| 4.3.2 Conditional Imperatives and if Conditionals | 第53-58页 |
| 4.3.3 Conditional Imperatives and LS and Construction | 第58-61页 |
| 4.4 Productivity of Conditional Imperatives | 第61-66页 |
| Chapter Five Construction Meaning of Conditional Imperative Construction | 第66-77页 |
| 5.1 Imperative Meaning and Conditional Meaning | 第66-70页 |
| 5.1.1 Imperative Meaning | 第66-68页 |
| 5.1.2 Conditional Meaning | 第68-70页 |
| 5.2 Syntax-Semantics Incongruity | 第70-72页 |
| 5.3 Pragmatic Asymmetry | 第72-77页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第77-81页 |
| 6.1 Major Findings of the Thesis | 第77-79页 |
| 6.2 Limitations and Further Study | 第79-81页 |
| References | 第81-85页 |
