Chapter1 Introduction 1
Chapter2 Four Models of Construction Grammar 5
2.1 A Brief History of Construction Grammar 5
2.1.1 Case Grammar 5
2.1.2 Frame Semantics 7
2.1.3 Idiomatic Expressions 8
2.1.4 Construction Grammar 12
2.2 Four Models of Construction Grammar 15
2.2.1 Unification Construction Grammar 18
2.2.2 Cognitive Grammar 23
2.2.3 Radical Construction Grammar 30
2.2.4 Cognitive Construction Grammar 35
2.3 Summary of the Four Models 39
Chapter3 An Event-Construction Model 43
3.1 Problems to Construction Grammar 43
3.2 Event and Language Acquisition 53
3.3 An Event-Construction Model 56
3.3.1 Definition 56
3.3.2 The metonymic relation between verbs/constructions and Events 60
3.3.3 Profiling 64
3.3.4 Event representation 68
3.3.5 Hierarchical organization of events 80
3.3.6 The role of verbs in Construction 89
3.3.7 Correspondence between Events and constructions 91
3.3.8 Event contributing argument roles 96
3.3.9 The Existence Construction 102
3.4 Event and Related Concepts 112
3.5 The Event-Construction Model,Construction Grammar and Event Structure 120
3.6 Summary 123
Chapter 4 The Complex Caused-Result Construction 125
4.1 Introduction 125
4.2 Methodology and Terminology 128
4.3 The Problems of Previous Studies 128
4.3.1 The semantic analysis 128
4.3.2 The source of DE 130
4.3.3 The category of DE 130
4.3.4 The DE sentence 131
4.3.5 The part following DE(NP2+VP2/AP) 134
4.3.6 The ways to disambiguate the sentence 136
4.3.7 Summary 138
4.4 DE Sentence as a Construction 139
4.5 An Event-Construction Approach to the Complex Caused-Result Construction 150
4.5.1 A description of the DE sentences 150
4.5.2 The account of DE sentences in terms of Event-Construction 153
4.5.3 The meaning and network of Caused-Result Construction 168
4.6 Principles for Complex Caused-Result Construction 172
4.7 Summary 175
Chapter 5 Conclusion 178
5.1 Contributions and Advantages 178
5.2 Implications for the Understanding of Novel Expressions 181
5.3 Implications for Semantics and Syntax Interface 183
Bibliography 185
后记 209