Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 2 Construction Grammar and Problems 8
2.1 The Basic Tenets of Construction Grammar 8
2.2 Constructional Studies 9
2.3 Variations of Construction Grammar 12
2.4 Summary:Problems to Construction Grammar 51
Chapter 3 Event-Encoding Hypothesis of Causatives 56
3.1 Causatives in General 56
3.2 Approaches to Causatives 64
3.3 Causatives as an Event-based Construction 71
3.4 Event-Encoding Hypothesis of Causatives 74
3.5 Summary 94
Chapter 4 Causative Construction as an Encoding of Events 96
4.1 Three Levels to Syntax 96
4.2 The Semantic Features of Causatives 97
4.3 The Syntactic Structure of Causatives 109
4.4 The Pragmatic Features of Causatives 121
4.5 Concluding Remarks 140
Chapter 5 Conclusion and Implications 143
5.1 The Framework 143
5.2 Implications for Future Study 149
Appendix 157
Bibliography 179
后记 201