Chapter1 Introduction

Chapter2 Four Models of Construction Grammar

2.1 A Brief History of Construction Grammar

2.1.1 Case Grammar

2.1.2 Frame Semantics

2.1.3 Idiomatic Expressions

2.1.4 Construction Grammar

2.2 Four Models of Construction Grammar

2.2.1 Unification Construction Grammar

2.2.2 Cognitive Grammar

2.2.3 Radical Construction Grammar

2.2.4 Cognitive Construction Grammar

2.3 Summary of the Four Models

Chapter3 An Event-Construction Model

3.1 Problems to Construction Grammar

3.2 Event and Language Acquisition

3.3 An Event-Construction Model

3.3.1 Definition

3.3.2 The metonymic relation between verbs/constructions and Events

3.3.3 Profiling

3.3.4 Event representation

3.3.5 Hierarchical organization of events

3.3.6 The role of verbs in Construction

3.3.7 Correspondence between Events and constructions

3.3.8 Event contributing argument roles

3.3.9 The Existence Construction

3.4 Event and Related Concepts

3.5 The Event-Construction Model,Construction Grammar and Event Structure

3.6 Summary

Chapter 4 The Complex Caused-Result Construction

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Methodology and Terminology

4.3 The Problems of Previous Studies

4.3.1 The semantic analysis

4.3.2 The source of DE

4.3.3 The category of DE

4.3.4 The DE sentence

4.3.5 The part following DE(NP2+VP2/AP)

4.3.6 The ways to disambiguate the sentence

4.3.7 Summary

4.4 DE Sentence as a Construction

4.5 An Event-Construction Approach to the Complex Caused-Result Construction

4.5.1 A description of the DE sentences

4.5.2 The account of DE sentences in terms of Event-Construction

4.5.3 The meaning and network of Caused-Result Construction

4.6 Principles for Complex Caused-Result Construction

4.7 Summary

Chapter 5 Conclusion

5.1 Contributions and Advantages

5.2 Implications for the Understanding of Novel Expressions

5.3 Implications for Semantics and Syntax Interface

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